Search results
Some of London's debtors' prisons were the Coldbath Fields Prison, Fleet Prison, Giltspur Street Compter, King's Bench Prison, Marshalsea Prison, Poultry Compter, and Wood Street Counter. The most famous was the Clink prison , which had a debtor's entrance in Stoney Street.
19 lis 2020 · By the 18th and 19th centuries, thousands of people were incarcerated in this manner in Britain, and the inmates of a number of prisons – including the Fleet and the Marshalsea in London – were exclusively debtors.
28 lis 2008 · On one day, in 1826, there were 2861 people in debtors’ prisons, of whom 1,700 were in the four main London jails. Most people were like Mister Micawber, and Mister Pickwick, in that they stayed...
The Marshalsea (1373–1842) was a notorious prison in Southwark, just south of the River Thames. Although it housed a variety of prisoners—including men accused of crimes at sea and political figures charged with sedition —it became known, in particular, for its incarceration of the poorest of London's debtors. [ 1 ]
As a debtors' prison, King's Bench was largely run by the prisoners themselves, with conditions for individual prisoners depending largely on how much they were able to pay. There were persistent complaints of overcrowding and extortion by prison officers.
6 dni temu · Reference: PRIS. Title: Records of the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons. Description: Records of debtors' prisons from the seventeeth to nineteenth centuries, relating both to...
Over half the population of England's prisons in the 18th and early 19th centuries were incarcerated because of debt. Extortion, brutal treatment and appalling conditions were experienced by imprisoned debtors. Andy Wood offers an overview.
