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)
The "Cold Bath"--Cold Baths--Sir John Oldcastle--Archery--Tea
Gardens--Small Pox Hospital--The Pantheon--Lady
Huntingdon's Chapel--Lady Huntingdon 111
CHAPTER XI.
The Spencean System--Orator Hunt--Riot in the City--Riots--End
of the Riots 127
CHAPTER XII.
Fighting--Hockley-in-the-Hole--Bear Baiting--Bear Gardens--Bull
Baiting--Sword Play 137
CHAPTER XIII.
Mount Pleasant--Saffron Hill--Old House in West
Street--Fagin--Field Lane--Thieves 153
CHAPTER XIV.
Bleeding Hart Yard--Ely Place--John of Gaunt--Ely
Chapel--Turnmill Brook--The Fleet--Holborn Bridge 163
CHAPTER XV.
Lamb's Conduit--Clerkenwell--Fleet Market--Rye-House
Plot--Fleet Bridge 179
CHAPTER XVI.
Alderman Waithman--John Wilkes--Ludgate Prison--Sir
Stephen Foster 193
CHAPTER XVII.
Bridewell--Montfichet Castle--Fuller on Bridewell--Ward
on Bridewell--Howard on Bridewell--Bridewell Prison--
The City and Apprentices--Mother Cresswell--Bridewell
Court Room 205
CHAPTER XVIII.
Alsatia--Whitefriars--Deaths in the Fleet--Ben Jonson and
the Fleet 223
The Fleet Prison.
CHAPTER XIX.
History of the Fleet Prison--Female Wardens--Settlement of
Fees--Liberty of Prisoners--Filthy State of the Fleet--A
Quarrelsome Knight--Preference for the Fleet Prison--Sir
John Falstaff--Cardinal Wolsey 229
CHAPTER XX.
Prisoners--Puritans--Bibliography of Fleet Prison--A
Warden's Troubles 243
CHAPTER XXI.
The Warden of the Fleet--Purchase of Wardenship--Bad
Discipline--Boundaries of the Fleet--Preference for the
Fleet 255
CHAPTER XXII.
Complaints of the Warden--The Warden keeps Corpses--Huggins
and Bambridge--Castell--The First Prisoner
in Irons--Acquittal of Huggins and Bambridge--Bambridge
and his Prisoners--Chapel in the Fleet Bagging 265
CHAPTER XXIII.
Admission to the Fleet Prison--The _Humours_ of the Fleet 279
CHAPTER XXIV.
Garnish--The "Common Side"--Howard's Report--Regulations
of the Prison--Gordon Riots--Burning of the
Fleet Prison--Fleet Prison Rebuilt--The "Bare"--Racket
Masters--A Whistling Shop--A Mock Election
"_Dum Vivimus, Vivamus_"--Number of Prisoners--Destitution 293
CHAPTER XXV.
Escape of Prisoners--A Gang of Forgers--Abolition of
Imprisonment for Debt--Prisoners Object to move--Opposition
to Removal--"The Last Days of the Fleet"--Sale
of the Fleet Prison--Begging Grate--Richard Oastler 313
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