Wood Street Compter, prison owned by the Sheriffs of London, built in the mayoralty of Sir Samuel Strange in 1670. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries from his Smith’s Antiquities of London and its Environs, J. Sewell, R. Folder, J. Simco, London, 1793.

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