Newgate onto Holborn Viaduct at the point where the Old Bailey thoroughfare joins to the south and Giltspur Street to the north. A notable discovery here was a Roman tile inscribed with a disgruntled comment that "Austalis has been going off on his own for 13 days". To the north of the street are the ruins of Christ Church Greyfriars on the site of a medieval Franciscan monastery. To the south is Paternoster Square leading towards St Paul's Cathedral. Newgate Newgate was one of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London and one of the
The Newgate Calendar Code, with some rare exceptions. One edition contained an introduction suggesting that swindling be made (another) capital offence. A new edition was published in 1824 by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin, two lawyers, and a further edition in 1826, under the title, "The New Newgate Calendar". A penny dreadful edition of The New Newgate Calendar appeared between 1863 and 1866. The Newgate Calendar The Newgate Calendar, subtitled "The Malefactors' Bloody Register", was a popular work of improving literature in the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally a monthly bulletin of executions, produced by the Keeper of Newgate Prison in London, the