George III visits the prison at Dorchester with his family. Royal Beneficence. From a print by Charles Howard Hodges dated 1793, after a work by Thomas Stothard. The King, touched by the plight of a man imprisoned for over seven years for a debt of £220 paid that sum to have the man released.

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