THE BAGNIGGE ORGANIST 91 THE ANCIENT RIVER FLEET, AT CLERKENWELL, 1825 100 SOUTH VIEW OF THE COLD BATHS 113 THE SMALLPOX HOSPITAL IN COLD BATH FIELDS 118 VIEW OF NORTHAMPTON OR SPA FIELDS CHAPEL, WITH THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON'S HOUSE ADJOINING 124 FAGIN, THE JEW 159 FIELD LANE NEGOTIATIONS; OR, A SPECIMEN OF "FINE DRAWING" 160 ELY HOUSE 1784 169 END OF HOLBORN BRIDGE, TAKEN FROM THE SOUTH, AND PART OF HOLBORN HILL, JUNE 2, 1840 175 HOLBORN BRIDGE 177 LAMB'S CONDUIT, SNOW HILL 181 FLEET MARKET, FROM HOLBORN BRIDGE 187 BRIDEWELL BRIDGE 207 WOMEN BEATING HEMP 213 PASS ROOM, BRIDEWELL, 1808 215 THE ARREST 228 BAMBRIDGE 273 A PRISONER IN IRONS 274 THE COMMON SIDE OF THE FLEET PRISON 278 THE FLEET PRISON 296 RACKETS IN THE FLEET PRISON, 1760 303 A WHISTLING SHOP IN THE FLEET, 1821 306 AUTOGRAPH DONE AT THE PARLOUR NO. 1, PALAIS DE LA FLETE, THIS 24 DAY JUNE 311 FARRINGDON STREET AND THE FLEET PRISON 322 GROUND PLAN OF FLEET PRISON 323 SECTION OF THE PRISON 323 EXTERIOR OF THE GRATE 324 A FLEET WEDDING 362 THE SAILOR'S FLEET WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT 364 ILLUSTRATIONS WILL ALSO BE FOUND AT PAGES 171, 172, 184, 280, 294, 304, 307, 308, 319, 335. [Illustration] _The Fleet:_ Its River, Prison, and Marriages. CHAPTER I. Only a little tributary to the Thames, the River Fleet, generally, and ignominiously, called the Fleet _Ditch_, yet it is historically interesting, not only on account of the different places through which its murmuring stream meandered, almost all of which have some story of their own to tell, but the reminiscences of its Prison stand by themselves--pages of history, not to be blotted out, but to be recorded as valuable in illustration of the habits, and customs, of our forefathers.