Penal Methods of the Middle Ages: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics

by George Burnham Ives

Edinburgh Review, vol. xxviii. p. 433.

These produced A Letter from a Subscriber to the York Lunatic Asylum. York, 1788, etc.

[736]. He died in 1797, and an inscription was erected to him in Westminster Abbey. See Dict. Nat. Biog., and Jonathan Gray, History of York Asylum, p. 18.

[737]. Samuel Tuke, Description of the Retreat, p. 22. York, 1813.

[738]. The Description of the Retreat near York, already alluded to.

[739]. To the York Herald, dated September 23, 1813. It was signed merely “Evigilator,” but had been written by Dr. Best, the head of the York Asylum.

See J. Gray, Hist. p. 28; also D. H. Tuke, Hist. pp. 129, 148.

[740]. Edinburgh Review, vol. xxviii. p. 433. Edinburgh, 1817.

[741]. S. W. Nicoll, An Enquiry, p. 11; and see Jonathan Gray, Hist. p. 31.

[742]. D. H. Tuke, Hist. p. 79.