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Moses Pitt
1631–1697
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- publisher
Moses Pitt (c.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Fleet PrisonDates unknown
- Fleet PrisonDates unknown
Biography
Moses Pitt (c. 1639â1697) 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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