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Newgate

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1. Newgate - Noun

2. Newgate - Proper noun

Meaning

a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902

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The procession from Newgate to Tyburn used to pass along Broad Street, and halt at the great gate of the hospital, in order that the condemned man might take his last draught of ale on earth. Walter Besant

Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St George's, Hanover Square, than in the condemned cells of Newgate. Samuel Butler (novelist)

As concerns hangings at Tyburn, at the day of the execution, the voyage of the convicts started from Newgate prison; they were all loaded into a horse-drawn open cart and taken to Tyburn. Source: Internet

Donaldson (2011: 176) Riggs (1989: 51–52) This took place in October 1598, while Jonson was on remand in Newgate Gaol charged with manslaughter. Source: Internet

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

Convicts would be transported to the site in an open ox-cart from Newgate Prison. Source: Internet

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