Newgate prison features more than once in the Jacobite Chronicles, and for centuries was a big landmark of London, with a horrendous reputation and feared by many. Daniel Defoe called it ‘an emblem of Hell itself,’ and New York adopted the name Newgate for one of its early prisons. A number of famous (or rather infamous) people were held here, and it certainly deserves a blog article!   The actual name of Newgate arises from a mistake, as it was believed until excavations in the twentieth century that the mediaeval gatehouse which served as the first prison was actually […]

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