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 | | In 1643 Boston was strongly fortified for the king and parliament, but it was soon crowded with the parliamentary soldiery, and made the head-quarters of Cromwells army. |
 | | The title of the corporation was, The Mayor and Burgesses of the borough of Boston; the officers being a mayor, recorder, deputy-recorder, twelve aldermen; eighteen common councilmen, coroner, town-clerk, judge of the court of admiralty, gaoler, and subordinate officers connected either with the borough or port. |
 | | The borough gaol is very inadequate for that classification of the prisoners which the law requires, as there is no provision for a separation of the untried from the convicted, and the young offender has to associate, day and night, with the hardened culprit. |
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