The burning of Newgate Prison, London, England by the "No-Popery" rioters during The Gordon Riots of 1780. An anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778.

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The burning of Newgate Prison, London, England by the "No-Popery" rioters during The Gordon Riots of 1780. An anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published 1861.

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