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Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.

CHAPTER XXI
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Charity distributed L800,000 per annum.
There are about 2500 persons committed for trial in one year: The annual depredations amount to about L2,100,000.
There are 19 Prisons, and 5204 Alehouses within the bills of Mortality.

The amount of Coin counterfeited is L200,000 per annum.

Forgeries on the Bank of England in the year L150,000.

About 3000 Receivers of Stolen Goods.

About 10,000 Servants at all times out of place.


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