Crossword-Solution: GOALER 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The goaler pushed in the daily portion of bread and water, but made no inquiry about his prisoner's well-being.

The goaler may have a daughter, who, moved by the romantic history and pallor of the prisoner, may exchange clothes with him.

Lucre lost no time in securing the appointment of honest Darby to the office of Castle Cumber Deputy Goaler--an appointment to which both M'Clutchy and M'Slime strongly recommended him, not certainly from an excess of affection towards that simple and worthy man, but from a misgiving that an important portion of a certain correspondence in the shape of two letters was in his possession, and that so far they were prudent in declining to provoke his enmity.

Two instances of transposed letters have also been corrected--sieze changed to seize, and Goaler changed to Gaoler.

Jenkins, goaler, three hundred and sixty-four pounds." February 7, 1785, "Robert Brooke" (afterwards Governor of Virginia in 1794-96, and still later Attorney General) and Bushrod Washington, (Uncle of George Washington and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) were admitted to practice law.