Talk:Newgate Prison

List of prisoners?
WHY ISN`T THERE A LIST OF NOTABLE PRISONERS LIKE ON ARTICLES ON PRISONS.
 * Because no one his added one yet. You can do it yourself if you want to. Osomec 01:56, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Links section
Perhaps when I have more time I will clean up this links section. --Goyston 20:11, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Prisons
If anyone's interested, I've proposed a new wikiproject for the creation and improvement of articles regarding specific prisons, internment camps, and detention centers here. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 01:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver
In his book Quicksilver, Stephenson refers to a pub within Newgate called "The Black Dogge". Given other factual mistakes in the work (Cromwell's son being Roger, not Richard and that Judge Jeffreys was executed, which he wasn't) I believe that this is not correct. William Penn was confined in the Black Dog Tavern at Newgate in 1670 for unlicensed preaching, and I suspect that this is where Stephenson has the reference. However Newgate Prison was burnt down in 1666 and rebuilt in 1672, so it seems likely that Penn was held at a local pub because the Prison had not been completed. The Black dog is also said to be a ghost of Newgate --Streona (talk) 23:30, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

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Newgate Hornpipe
I have just come across this poem:

Cut yer name across me backbone Stretch me skin across yer drum Iron me up on Pinchgut Island From now to Kingdom Come. I'll eat yer Norfolk Dumpling Like a juicy Spanish plum, Even dance the Newgate Hornpipe If ye'll only gimme Rum!

Would I be correct to assume that the Newgate Hornpipe refers to someone in the process of being hanged?

Is the reference to the Newgate Hornpipe something that could added to this page? If so, I have no idea how to add it myself.

Nick@Eastbourne

Original source: p. 292. ISBN 9781407054070 2.100.172.208 (talk) 07:06, 23 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Like 'the Tyburn jig', it is slang for being hanged - see Times book review here. I've added a note in the final Legacy section, with refs. Paul W (talk) 07:45, 23 November 2022 (UTC)