London gaoler in the Stuart era, reign of King James I of England. In hat, doublet, breeches, hose and shoes, with staff and keys on a chain from his belt. From a woodcut in Geffray Mynshul's Essayes and Characters of a Prison and Prisoners, 1638. Copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his own The Cries of London, or Vagabondiana 2, edited by Francis Douce, John Bowyer Nichols, London, 1839.

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