JB/141/071/001

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S. cts so the motives by which men are
prompted to the Commision of Crimes - These
are the expectation of the pleasurs which are
the fruit of them - By far the greater number of the
offences which bring men to a prison are the
offspring of Rapacity - Crimes issuing from
any other motive are so few as scarcely to
demand in this view any separate notice
The talk of offenders will be of the poorer sort
among them the produce of a little plunder will
go in the purchase of pleasure much beyond
that which the ordinary produce of their
labour would enable them to purchase; such
as more food, more delicate liquors in greater plenty
and more delicious, finer clothes, and
more expensive pleasures:- These things naturally
form the subject of conversation among the
Prisoners and an inexhaustible subject of
boasting on the part of those who by their
skill or good fortune have acquired the means
of enjoying them These recitals give a sort of
superiority which those who possess it are
fond from a principle of vanity to display
and magnify to the humble and admiring crowd of
their less fortunate associates- They inflame
the imagination of the hearers and in a word
their propensity to gratify their rapacity by all
sorts of Crimes is increased by the prospect of
the pleasures of which the means are furnished
by these Crimes.- the more numerous the association
the more varied the exploits to be recounted and what subject
more naturally the subject of conversation than the circumstances
which have brought them together—

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Identifier: | JB/141/071/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f16 / f15
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	48288
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