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Chamber Accounts of the Sixteenth Century
… [Payments] 7 Oct. to Mr Roger Warfield treasurer of Bridewell for the diet of such masterless and vagrant persons …
A Survey of London
… in other places about the city, as at Baynards Castle, at Bridewell, and White hall, sometime called Yorke place, and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and queen Mary. He was afterwards appointed preacher at Bridewell and lecturer of St. Bride's. In 1700 he was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… course of time the Cromwellian barracks became in part a Bridewell for petty offenders, in part the gaoler's house, … gaol itself and one inmate of the House of Correction or Bridewell. Three of the debtors were breakfasting with the gaoler's family (next door to the Bridewell), and the other six had a warm room with a good …
A History of the County of Warwick
… rebuilt, to make a house of correction, commonly called Bridewell'. 6 The Bridewell, which survived for more than 250 years, seems at … west range also. The Dirge Hall was used at times by the Bridewell and at times for other purposes. 7 By the early …
A History of the County of Warwick
… hospital (later Bablake School) in 1560 and partly for the Bridewell in 1571. The ground occupied by the leper hospital …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1571 it was decided to establish a house of correction or Bridewell in the former collegiate buildings at Bablake. … resulting from an outbreak of plague, 77 but by 1580 a Bridewell was established 78 where the unemployed poor were … contained looms and other tools for clothworking. 81 The Bridewell probably occupied most of the south range of the …
Magna Britannia
… port, were marched to Exeter, and guarded in the county bridewell by a volunteer regiment, raised on the spur of the … p. 127. Rot. Pat. 15 Edward I. Mr. Oliver's Notes. A bridewell upon an extensive scale, capable, as it was …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… in Goldsmythstreet, who intend to purchase ye same for a Bridewell or house of Correction, being the very use the said … paid for it on Dec. 17, 1661 ( f. 154 b). It is called a Bridewell or working-house for the keeping of the poore att …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… for repairing of Boates, for making Handmills at the Bridewell, for slightinge the hedges at St. David's, carrying …