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The cry of the oppressed. : Being a true and tragical account of the unparallel'd sufferings of multitudes of poor imprisoned debtors, in most of the gaols in England, under the tyranny of the gaolers, and other oppressors, lately discovered upon the occasion of this present Act of Grace, For the release of poor prisoners for debt, or damages; some of them being not only iron'd, and lodg'd with hogs, felons, and condemn'd persons, but have had their bones broke; others poisoned and starved to death; others denied the common blessings of nature, as water to drink or straw to lodg on; others their wives and daughters attempted to be ravish'd; with other barbarous cruelties, not to be parallel'd in any history, or nation: all which is made out by undeniable evidence. Together with the case of the publisher. Illustrated with copper-plates

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