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Curious Sunday Church Incident and Newgate Escape
A parish church tale from London recounts a boy with a jug asking for ale during a reading, a clergyman’s red faced reaction, and a later escape tale from Newgate Ireland where 16 prisoners used improvised tools and a rope furnished by a wife to descend from the roof and flee, slipping past a sentinel. The account blends two distinct incidents in a single report.
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London
Wirral
Chesthire
Stérnhold
Hopkins
Joseph
Newgate
Ieland
Liverpool
Fhwer Yard
Aioe
Asia Wall
Owever
S-House
Green Street
Sefsions
Sheriff’s-Prisons
Traynor
Murphy