The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and MarriagesAshton, John
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The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages
Ashton, John
Fleet Prison (London, England); Fleet, River (England)
Colton, James 1681 to 1721
Callow, Jos. 1752
Clayton 1720
Colteman 1688
Draper 1689 to 1716
Denevan, Francis 1747 " 1754
Davis, Wm. 1718
Evans, John 1689 to 1729
Evans, Ed. 1727
Farren, John 1688
Gower, Henry 1689 to 1718
Hodgkins, Thos. 1674 " 1728
Hanson, Anthony 1731 " 1732
Jones, John 1718 " 1725
Loveday, Wm. 1750
Morton 1720
Marston, Edward 1713 to 1714
Marshall, John 1750
Murry, D. 1719
Nodes 1753
Oswald 1712
Oglesby 1728 to 1740
Privavaul
Patterson 1732
Ryder, Thos. 1722 to 1743
Roberts, Edward 1698
Reynolds, E. 1749
Rogers, Nehemiah 1700 to 1703
Shadwell, Ralph 1733 " 1734
Shaw, James 1723
Sindrey, Richard 1722 to 1740
Stacy, Edmund 1719
Shelburn, Anthony 1722 to 1737
Stainton, John 1730
Simpson, Anthony 1726 to 1754
Stanhope, Walter 1711
Standly 1747 to 1750
Skinner, Nathaniel 1716
Town, I. 1754
Tomkings 1740
Tarrant, John 1688
" " 1742 to 1750
Townsend, Jacob 1754
Vice, Jo. 1689 to 1713
Wagstaffe, James 1689 " 1729
Wise, J. 1709
Wilkinson 1740
Williams, Wm.
Walker, Clem. 1732 to 1735
Wodmore, Isaac 1752
Which of these is the one referred to in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for
April 1809? "I should be much obliged to you also, Mr. Urban, if you,
or any of your numerous and intelligent correspondents, could acquaint
me with the name of a tall black clergyman, who used to solicit the
commands of the votaries of Hymen at the door of a public-house known
by the sign of the Cock in Fleet Market, previously to the Marriage
Act."
Before dismissing the subject of Fleet parsons, reference must be
made to the Rev. Alexander Keith of Mayfair Chapel, who has a claim
to be noticed here, as he was an inhabitant of the Fleet. The Chapel
in Mayfair was built somewhere about 1736, to meet the wants of the
increasing neighbourhood, which was then becoming fashionable, after
the abolition of the fair in Brook-field, and the first incumbent was
the Rev. Alexander Keith, who claimed to have been ordained priest by
the Bishop of Norwich, acting on Letters Dimissory from the Bishop
of London, in June, 1731. He also stated that at the time of his
appointment as preacher in the Chapel, he was Reader at the Roll's
Chapel. He did a roaring trade in irregular marriages, and it was at
Mayfair Chapel that the Duke of Hamilton espoused the youngest of the
beautiful Miss Gunnings, "with a ring of the bed curtain, at half an
hour past twelve at night."
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