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Yea some prisoners live by that kind of trade , buying and selling , and letting out beds to hire . Some are daily sent to prison , some daily delivered , wherefore this place is never void of seven or eight hundred men that go at ...
Yea some prisoners live by that kind of trade , buying and selling , and letting out beds to hire . Some are daily sent to prison , some daily delivered , wherefore this place is never void of seven or eight hundred men that go at ...
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eight hundred or nine hundred prisoners , some being taken out and others put in each day . Beyond this jail is another for those who are imprisoned for weighty matters , and for those who are already condemned to death , which has a ...
eight hundred or nine hundred prisoners , some being taken out and others put in each day . Beyond this jail is another for those who are imprisoned for weighty matters , and for those who are already condemned to death , which has a ...
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Besides being chained and guarded in the above - said manner , all those prisoners who are charged with grave crimes have fetters on their feet , and on their hands they have some which they call chucas , which are like manacles ...
Besides being chained and guarded in the above - said manner , all those prisoners who are charged with grave crimes have fetters on their feet , and on their hands they have some which they call chucas , which are like manacles ...
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INTRODUCTION | xvii |
i The Report of Galeote Pereira | 3 |
ii The Treatise of Fr Gaspar da Cruz O P | 45 |
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