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The Debtor Sanctuaries of London

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    • c.1700: The most deplorable CASE of many Thousand Persons Imprisoned for Debt in the Kings-Bench and Fleet
    • 1712: The Deplorable Case of the poor People in the Mint
    • 1737: The case of insolvent debtors confined in the several goals of this kingdom.
    • 1753: Reasons humbly offered for an Act of Relief.
    • 1790: The Rules of King’s Bench Prison.
    • 1795: The Rules of the King’s Bench Prison
  • Statutes
    • 1535-6: 27 Henry 8 c.19: An Act limiting an order for sanctuaries and sanctuary persons
    • 1604: 2 James 1 c.25: Repeal of sanctuary laws
    • 1623: 21 James 1 c.28: Abolition of Sanctuary
    • 1696: An Act for the enforcing the Laws which restrain Marriages without Licence or Banns
    • 1697: An act for the more effectual relief of creditors in cases of escapes
    • 1701: 1 Ann 2 c.6: Preventing escapes from the Queen’s Bench and the Fleet
    • 1701: 1 Anne stat 1 c.25: An act for the relief of poor prisoners for debt
    • 1704: 2 & 3 Anne c.16: An act for the discharge of Insolvent debtors
    • 1705: 4 Anne c.17: Fraudulent Bankrupts Act
    • 1705: 6 Anne c.22: An Act Explaining the Bankrupts Frauds Act
    • 1706: 6 Anne c.9: Escape from Prisons
    • 1708: 7 Anne c.12: Diplomatic Privileges Act
    • 1711: 10 Anne c.15: Repealing the description of a bankrupt
    • 1711: 10 Anne c.19: Customs and Excise Act
    • 1712: 10 Anne c.20 / c.29: An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors
    • 1719: An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors
    • 1722: 9 Geo 1 c. 28: The Southwark Mint Act
    • 1722: The “Black Act”
    • 1724: 11 George 1 c.21: An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors
    • 1724: The Wapping Mint act
    • 1725: 12 George 1 c.29: Preventing frivolous and vexatious arrests.
    • 1729: 2 Geo 2 c.20: Insolvent Debtors Relief Act
    • 1729: 2 George 2 c.22: For the relief of imprisoned debtors.
    • 1730: 3 Geo 2 c.27: Act for explaining and amending the 1729 relief act.
    • 1736: 10 George 2 c.26: An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors
    • 1738: 11 George 2 c.9: Extending the 1737 Relief Act
    • 1741: 14 George 2 c.34: Continuing debtor acts
    • 1742: 16 George 2 c.17: Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
    • 1747: 21 George 2 c.31: Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
    • 1748: 21 George 2 c.33: Continuing laws for the relief of debtors
    • 1753: 26 Geo. 2 c.33: Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act
    • 1756: 29 George 2 c.18: To obviate a doubt concerning the relief of insolvent debtors
    • 1760: 1 George 3 c.17: Relief of Insolvent Debtors
    • 1761: 2 George 3 c.2: Repeal of compulsion clauses in Relief Act
    • 1786: 26 George 3 c.44: Relief of imprisoned debtors.
    • 1793: 33 George 3 c.5: Renewing the Lords Act of 1758
    • 1805: 45 George 3 c.3: Remedying omissions in the 1804 insolvents relief act.
    • 1812: Amending the 1811 Insolvent Debtors Relief Act
    • 1869: 32 & 33 Victoria c.62: Abolition of Imprisonment for debt
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Documents

A selection of documents relating to sanctuaries, debt, prisons and imprisonment, in the British Isles, in order of date. For British laws, see under Statutes.

  • c.1700: The most deplorable CASE of many Thousand Persons Imprisoned for Debt in the Kings-Bench and Fleet
  • 1712: The Deplorable Case of the poor People in the Mint
  • 1737: The case of insolvent debtors confined in the several goals of this kingdom.
  • 1753: Reasons humbly offered for an Act of Relief.
  • 1790: The Rules of King’s Bench Prison.
  • 1795: The Rules of the King’s Bench Prison

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