Report, if you have a problem with this page“ As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam. The principal public asylum in London, it had accepted dangerous and insane paupers as 'objects of charity' for centuries, and was proud of the claim that it had never turned anyone away. ”
Mike Jay
From : A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine
