Scenes and Stories by a Clergyman in Debt, Vol. 2 of 3

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Excerpt from Scenes and Stories by a Clergyman in Debt, Vol. 2 of 3: Written During His Confinement in the Debtors' Prisons
And here we will explain to the reader a curious point of common law - (novel office for a clergy man, ) - and one for which we, in our dulness of intellect, can find no food for advantage. A person being arrested, and not intending to go to White cross-street, can only remove to that one of the other debtors' prisons, - the King's Bench or the Fleet, - in whose court the action against him is laid: so that if the writ be in the Exchequer or Common Pleas, he goes to the Fleet; if the King's Bench, to Banco Regis. So far so good; as the privilege, in either case, although dearly paid for, is a great accommodation.
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