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[140]. 7 Jac. I. c. 4.
[141]. Departmental Committee on Prisons. Minutes of Evidence, Appendix ii. p. 457. London, 1895.
[142]. As very early in the sixteenth century; see 19 Hen. VII. c. 10.
[143]. See John Brown, John Bunyan, His Life and Times, pp. 169, 182, etc.
[144]. The West answering the North: Relation of the Sufferings of George Fox, Edw. Pyot, and William Salt, p. 34. Printed 1657.
[145]. As to the pits and dungeons of an old English prison, see Charles Creighton, History of the Epidemics in Britain, p. 386. Cambridge, 1891.
[146]. 19 Car. II. c. 4.
[147]. The State of the Prisons, pp. 8 and 9. Warrington, 1780.
[148]. Many prisons had no yards or courts of any kind. See J. B. Bailey, The Condition of the Gaols as described by John Howard, chap. ii. London, 1884.