Copy of testimony and letters used as evidence and presented to the British House of Commons' Committee appointed to enquire into the State of the [Gaols] in April 1730, after Member of Parliament (MP) James Oglethorpe became aware of the brutalities of the debtors' prisons and established the committee in February 1729.

A compilation of texts concerning governmental salaries, fees, extortion, peculation, and abuse of the public, particularly concerning the Court of Common Pleas and the Fleet Prison for debtors in England. The collection also includes a map of Fleet Prison.