John LevinReally can't wait to read this:
Imprisonment in Early Modern England
Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society
by Richard T Bell.
(But am going to have to til October.)
'Rules' were areas outside the jail walls where imprisoned debtors were allowed to live and work.
According to John Howard, aside from the Fleet & Bench prisons in London, a handful of other prisons had 'Rules': Losthwithiel, Carmarthen and Newcastle.
Interesting article on "Jail Liberties" around a New York Debtors' Prison:
https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/communities/history/canton-jail-liberties-marker/
Similar to the 'Rules' of some English Prisons, like the Fleet and King's Bench
Dickens' account of the Insolvent Debtors Court, off Lincoln's Inns Fields:
https://victorianlondon.substack.com/p/the-insolvent-debtors-court
