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Gaol Chaplains

By THOS. COX.

When were they first appointed? Did the following advice of Latimer, in a sermon before King Edward, in 1549, take any effect? "Oh, I would ye would resort to prisons! A commendable thing in a Christian realm: I would wish there were curates of prisons, that we might say, the 'curate of Newgate, the curate of the Fleet,' and I would have them waged for their labour. It is a holiday work to visit the prisoners, for they be kept from sermons."—Vol. i. p. 180.

Topics: Gaol Chaplains, Prison Reform, Historical Sermons

Locations: Newgate, the Fleet