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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in a steward, assisted by a janitor who is keeper of the prison, though no process has issued for many years. The …
Survey of London
… the House of Lords agreed that it should be turned into a prison and Thomas Davenish was appointed keeper. Sir Kenelm … sometimes as the Clink Garden because the notorious Clink prison was situated under the buildings at its northern end. … the English language that the name of a small and obscure prison of the Bishops of Winchester in Southwark, the Clink, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 46; again, during the American war it was used as a prison for French, Spanish and Dutch prisoners successively. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 17th to the early 19th century it was used as a debtors' prison, and the semi-dungeon into which the poorer debtors …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… unless he was under age, or out of the country or in prison, or unless there be [a claim] for reasonable partition … although of full age, within the four seas and out of prison, had not challenged his right within a year and a day, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… to set free the Jews who had been imprisoned in the royal prison for the murder of a boy, on condition that the said …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of sedition, 'high misdemeanours,' or who were thrown into prison without knowing the charge against them. 380 Part of … which were pulled down about 1850. 426 The removal of the prison, which was situated near the entrance to the Lower … was effected some time between 1790 and 1805, when the prison, court room, &c., were converted to the use of the …