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<mods:abstract>Copy of testimony and letters used as evidence and presented to the British House of Commons' Committee appointed to enquire into the State of the [Gaols] in April 1730, after Member of Parliament (MP) James Oglethorpe became aware of the brutalities of the debtors' prisons and established the committee in February 1729. Additional details available in the finding aid.</mods:abstract>
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<mods:title>Guide to the Eyre-Bambridge Case Collection</mods:title>
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