The Record Office.—Connected in some degree with the Courts of Law and Equity, is the _New Record Office_, Fetter Lane, where is deposited a vast body of unprinted documents belonging to the state, of priceless value, including the far-famed _Doomsday Book_; they having been previously scattered in various buildings about the metropolis. Apply to the deputy-keeper for an order to inspect any but state papers of later date than 1688, for which the Home Secretary’s special order is requisite. Prisons.—_Newgate_, the chief criminal prison for the city and county, in the Old Bailey, was a prison in the _new gate_ of the city as early as 1218. Two centuries after it was re-built, and in the Great Fire (1666) burnt down. It was re-constructed in 1778–80; its interior burnt in the Gordon ‘No Popery’ riots in 1780; and its interior again re-constructed in 1857. Debtors are no longer confined here; the few who come under the new law—which has almost abolished imprisonment for debt—being sent to _Holloway Prison_ under the new law. Till public executions were abolished, criminals came out for execution in the middle of the Old Bailey, through the small iron door over which is suspended a grim festoon of fetters. They are now hanged privately inside the jail. The condemned cells are on the north-east side of Newgate. To view the prison, apply to the sheriff or the lord mayor. The chief debtors’ prison _was_ the _Queen’s Bench_, in Southwark. It is now a _Military Prison_. The _City Prison_, Holloway, a castellated structure, was built in 1855, as a substitute for other and overcrowded jails in London. Other prisons are the _House of Correction_, Cold Bath Fields, capable of holding 1,200 prisoners; the _House of Correction_, at Wandsworth; the _House of Correction_, Westminster; _Millbank Penitentiary_, near the Middlesex end of Vauxhall Bridge, which could, if wanted, hold 1,200 prisoners, and cost £500,000; _Pentonville Model Prison_; _Female Prison_, Brixton; _Surrey County Jail_, Horsemonger Lane, on the top of which the infamous Mannings were hanged in 1849; and the _House of Detention_, Clerkenwell, which the Fenians tried to blow up. The last prison is for persons not convicted. BANKS; INSURANCE OFFICES; STOCK EXCHANGE; CITY COMPANIES.