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<h2 id="notable-prisoners">Notable prisoners</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Giles_Wigginton/duXSgrA8">Giles Wigginton</a>, a Puritan cleric and controversialist, was imprisoned for 2 months around 1584, for refusing to take an oath.</li>
<li>Sir <a href="/facts/Walter_Raleigh/4XLgHJI1">Walter Raleigh</a> was held here the night before he was beheaded in <a href="/facts/Old_Palace_Yard/a447tkha">Old Palace Yard</a>, Westminster on 29 October 1618.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Thomas_Bates/HDFB5lLU">Thomas Bates</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Christopher_Holywood/GcfCb0M9">Christopher Holywood</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Richard_Lovelace_(poet)/ssI0YjnJ">Richard Lovelace</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Samuel_Pepys/hDTU7fjk">Samuel Pepys</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Saint_John_Southworth/0hSd8Tar">John Southworth</a></li>
<li>Sir <a href="/facts/Thomas_Ragland/GfXdgbRa">Thomas Ragland</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/John_Bastwick/a0yFDa2U">John Bastwick</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Henry_Savile_(politician)/IVuxnQsR">Henry Savile</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Laurence_Vaux/KpVSQ7ml">Laurence Vaux</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Forsythe, James Neild (2000). <i>State of the Prisons in England, Scotland, and Wales, Not for the Debtor Only, But for Felons Also, and Other Less Criminal Offenders</i>. London: Routledge. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-415-23127-2.</li>
<li>Tanner, Lawrence Edward (1923). <i>Westminster School, Its Buildings and Their Associations</i>. London: Philip Allan.</li></ul>
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<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Trial Procedures". Old Bailey online. Archived from the original on 5 February 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2007. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070205233440/http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/crime/trial-procedures.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070205233440/http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/crime/trial-procedures.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"The Book of Prisoners". The Tower of London. Camelot International. <a href="http://www.camelotintl.com/tower_site/prisoners/book.html" target="_blank">http://www.camelotintl.com/tower_site/prisoners/book.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Christopher Holywood". Catholic Encyclopedia. New Advent. <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07439a.htm" target="_blank">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07439a.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"Ragland, Sir Thomas, of Carnllwyd, Glam. Roughton Holme, Norf. and Walworth, Surr". The History of Parliament. <a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ragland-sir-thomas" target="_blank">http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ragland-sir-thomas</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"Laurence Vaux". Catholic Encyclopedia. New Advent. <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15315c.htm" target="_blank">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15315c.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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