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A New History of London
… held the sheriffs courts for Woodstreet and the Poultry compters. Over the court of hustings are painted the king's … situated in Woodstreet: they are supposed to be called compters, because prisoners are obliged to account or give … there are divers other officers, belonging alike to both compters, who give security to the sheriffs for the true and …
A New History of London
… of Bread-street there formerly stood one of the city compters or prisons; which in the year 1555, was removed into …
A Dictionary of London
… Bread Street in Bread Street Ward. One of the two original Compters, pertaining to the Sheriffs, the other being in … 1555 (ib.), to Giltspur Street in 1791, closed 1854. See Compters. Bread Street Hill South out of Queen Victoria …
A Survey of London
… the common counsell, for the ordering of prisoners in the Compters: all which notwithstanding, he continued as afore: …