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Tuesday 23 November 2010

THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDER

THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDER

The Complete Newgate Calendar
London, Navarre Society Ltd., 1926
 
Newgate
     The New Gate of the City of London,
the principal west gate at the point where Watling
Street reached London, roughly along the line of
Oxford Street and Holborn, built in the reign of
Henry I, used as a prison from at least 1188, and 
rebuilt as such in 1420.  It was destroyed in the
Gordon Riots in 1780 but rebuilt in 1783 and used 
for both civil debtors and criminals until 1815.
Thereafter, it was used for criminals only, and from
1881, only during the sittings of the Central
Criminal Court. It was finally destroyed in 1902,
part of the site being occupied by the Central
Criminal Court then built.
Newgate Calendar (or Malefactor's Bloody Register)
 
     The original series of this work, by R. Sanders,
was published in five volumes in 1760 and narrated
notorious crimes from 1700 till then.  There were
many later editions.  Later series were issued from
about 1820 as the Newgate Calendar, and the
New Newgate Calendar appeared weekly in 
1863-65.  There was also an Annals of Newgate 
by the Rev. M. Villette and others (1776).
(from The Oxford Companion to Law, 1980)
 
Click HERE to see THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDER , VOL 1
Click HERE to see THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDER , VOL 2
Click HERE to see THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDER , VOL 3
Click HERE to see THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDER , VOL 4
Click HERE to see THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDER , VOL 5
Click HERE to see THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDER GENERAL INDEX

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