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executive officers: those whose duty it is to enforce the law.
contrition: repentance.
securities: stocks and shares; papers which can be of no use to the ordinary thief.
Bridewell: the site of a prison, now demolished. It adjoined Whitefriars, and may be seen in the map to the west of Blackfriars.
amende honorable (French): when one wh
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