Whilst awaiting trial, Kidd was confined in the infamous Newgate Prison and wrote several letters to King William requesting clemency.

After his three days in the pillory, Defoe went into Newgate Prison.

He seems to have lain low for a few years, being either imprisoned in Newgate Prison or Marshalsea.

Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel died on 14 March 1470, and was buried with adequate splendor in Christ Church Greyfriars, near Newgate Prison.

** " Baby-farmer " Ada Williams is hanged at Newgate Prison for murdering a 21-month old girl.

* November 27-Two men John Smith en John Pratt were hanged in Newgate Prison in Londen after a conviction of sodomy.

* Newgate Prison is built in London.

In that case, the House of Commons had deprived John Paty and certain other citizens of the right to vote in an election, and had committed them to Newgate Prison merely for the offense of pursuing a legal action in the courts.

Edward II's Chancellor, Robert Baldock, was placed under house arrest in London, but a London mob broke into the house, severely beat him, and threw him into Newgate Prison, where he was murdered by some of the inmates.

* rebuild Newgate Prison and Newgate and accommodation in it for the Sheriffs and Recorder which is the forerunner of that in the Old Bailey

: For the prison in East Granby, Connecticut, see Old Newgate Prison.

A plan of Newgate Prison published in 1800

Newgate Prison was a prison in London, at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey just inside the City of London.

Michael Barrett was the last man to be hanged in public outside Newgate Prison ( and the last person to be publicly executed in Great Britain ) on 26 May 1868.

* Daniel Defoe – author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders ( whose protagonist is born and imprisoned in Newgate Prison )

* The Diary of Thomas Lloyd kept in Newgate Prison, 1794 – 1796

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* Contemporary illustrations: burning of the Newgate Prison and proclamation of George III.

Emmet's remains were first delivered to Newgate Prison and then back to Kilmainham Gaol, where the jailer was under instructions that if no-one claimed them they were to be buried in a nearby hospital's burial grounds called ' Bully's Acre ' in Kilmainham.

Old Newgate Prison from Peak Mountain

High points on the Metacomet Ridge in East Granby include Hatchet Hill and Peak Mountain ; the latter offers bird's eye view of the historic Old Newgate Prison.

After Queen Catherine's death, Owen Tudor was imprisoned at Newgate Prison, but later released.

Aldini's most famous public demonstrations of the electro-stimulation technique of deceased limbs was performed on the executed criminal George Forster at Newgate in London in 1803.

The altar in this church was from Newgate prison in Dublin.

Sufficient interest arose that Maitland gained permission to test inoculation at Newgate prison in exchange for their freedom on six prisoners due to be hanged, an experiment which was witnessed by a number of notable doctors.

Cover of the 1594 quarto of The True Tragedy of Richard III, which was " printed by Thomas Creede and ... to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market ".

Isabella finally took the habit of the Poor Clares before she died on 22 August 1358, and her body was returned to London for burial at the Franciscan church at Newgate, in a service overseen by Archbishop Simon Islip.

It was originally located at the site of Newgate, a gate in the Roman London Wall.

The first prison at Newgate was built in 1188 on the orders of Henry II.

Over the centuries, Newgate was used for a number of purposes including imprisoning people awaiting execution, although it was not always secure: burglar Jack Sheppard escaped from the prison two times before he went to the gallows at Tyburn in 1724.

In 1783, the site of London's gallows was moved from Tyburn to Newgate.

Until the 20th century, future British executioners were trained at Newgate ; one of the last was John Ellis in 1901.

* A record of executions conducted at the prison, together with commentary, was published as The Newgate Calendar, which inspired a genre of Victorian literature known as the Newgate novel.

Painted on the wall of Newgate prison was the proclamation that the inmates had been freed by the authority of " His Majesty, King Mob ".

Owen was sent to Newgate prison, making his way to Wales.

Initially, the mob dispersed after threatening to force their way into the House of Commons, but reassembled soon afterwards and, over several days, destroyed several Roman Catholic chapels, pillaged the private dwellings of Catholics, set fire to Newgate Prison, broke open all the other prisons, and attacked the Bank of England and several other public buildings.

A Harris organ at Christ Church Greyfriars, also known as Christ Church Newgate, in London was destroyed along with the church during the Blitz in December 1940.

* January 22 – Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged in Newgate prison in England for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.

Between May 1839 and February 1840, Fraser's published the work sometimes considered Thackeray's first novel, Catherine, originally intended as a satire of the Newgate school of crime fiction but ending up more as a rollicking picaresque tale in its own right.

These lurid and sensationalist accounts — known as " Newgate novels "— took their inspiration, and sometimes entire stories, from the pages of The Newgate Calendar.

In London, typhus frequently broke out among the ill-kept prisoners of Newgate Gaol and then moved into the general city population.

He tried to escape from Newgate jail in early 1438 and eventually ended up at Windsor Castle in July of that year.

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