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Moses Pitt

1631–1697

Nationality
United Kingdom
Occupation
publisher

Moses Pitt (c.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Fleet Prison
    Dates unknown
  2. Fleet Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Moses Pitt (c. 1639–1697) was a bookseller and printer known for the production of his Atlas of the world, a project supported by the Royal Society, and in particular by Christopher Wren. He is also known as the author of The Cry of the Oppressed (1691), an account of the conditions in which imprisoned debtors lived in debtors' jails in England.

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