A lawyer being tossed in a blanket by his colleagues in the yard at King's Bench Prison. Debtors and creditors inside a debtor's prison. Surry Collegians giving a lift to a Limb of the Law. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Robert Cruikshank from The English Spy, London, 1825. Written by Bernard Blackmantle, a pseudonym for Charles Molloy Westmacott.


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