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Bridewell: The Palace that became a Prison

Not Just the Tudors

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What Is the Presumption of a Curfew?

They are interested in the idle, the vagrant and women who are sexually active outside of marriage. They know that there are gangs of cut purses - they hear from various kinds of testimony. For really serious ted offences, they'll do up to a hundred lashes. You don't have to be an active prostitute to be a night walker. If you're arrested by the watch, then you're brought in, and your female,. Then the presumption is that you are soliciting r youare out after curfew idle people and small thefts. I mean, it's not far short of an elizabethan labour camp. It's a kind of golag with a charitable mission statement that just

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