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A History of the County of Somerset
… the hundred court in 1436 34 suggests the existence of a gaol for the hundred at Somerton. See pp. 1389, 142. R. W. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to replace a decayed figure of Queen Anne. The common gaol for the borough comprises four rooms for 50 prisoners: …
A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London before the Great Fire
… parishes: 10, 15, 18, 34, 38, 43, 46, 47 (incl. Newgate gaol), 54, 62, 78, 80, 85, 96, 127, 152. 7. CLRO: Court of …
Survey of London
… housekeepers have been driven to the Workhouse and the Gaol. This picture is not overdrawn.' More recent street …
Survey of London
… back to the 14th century and perhaps earlier, the County Gaol, dating from the beginning of the 16th century, and the … profit to the Keeper, but by 1799, when Horsemonger Lane Gaol was opened, the Marshalsea buildings had in their turn become too bad for further use and the County Gaol was purchased and altered to serve as a prison for the …
Old and New London
… Stow, writing in 1598, says, "The 'White Lion' is a gaol, so called for that the same was a common hostelrie for … of travellers by that sign. This house was first used as a gaol within these forty years last past." In 1640, as Laud …
Old and New London
… trial and execution the prisoners were confined in the new gaol, Southwark. On St. Margaret's Hill, in the immediate … though it was not adequate to the business till the county gaol and a sessions house were built nearer to Newington … PRISON, IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. The state of this gaol is thus described by Smollett, about the time of its …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… erected by the corporation, at an expense of 800: the old gaol having been taken down, a new one was built in 1819, …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… daily being spilt; knowing also that his own father was in gaol, dissembled out of fear, and lest he should be forcibly …
Calendar of State Papers, Spain
… and Giorgo deceased; others for fear of being sent to gaol, because, whilst his father Andrea was living, they …