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	Bridewell Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bridewell Palace was built for Henry VIII between 1515–1523 on the site of the medieval St Bride's Inn, at a cost of £39,000.
		In 1553 Edward VI gave over the palace to the City of London for the housing of homeless children and for the punishment of disorderly women.
		Bridewell may also be used for a police detention facility that is located close to a courthouse, such as in Dublin or Cork in Ireland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bridewell_Palace (386 words)

	Buckingham Palace - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The palace, originally known as Buckingham House, was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703 and acquired by King George III in 1762 as a private residence.
		Petersburg and at Tsarskoe Selo, the Papal Palace in Rome, the Royal Palace of Madrid, or indeed the former Palace of Whitehall.
		On VE Day (May 8, 1945), the Palace was the centre of British celebrations, with the King, Queen and the Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, and Princess Margaret appearing on the balcony, with the palace's fled-out windows behind them, to the cheers from a vast crowd in the Mall.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Buckingham_House (6783 words)

	ipedia.com: Palace Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A palace is an important urban residence of a royal or noble family, with its origins as the executive power center of a kingdom.
		The original 'palaces' on the Palatine Hill were the seat of the imperial power, while the capitol on the Capitoline Hill was the seat of the senate and the religious nucleus of Rome.
		The Palace of Holyrood, it will be noted, is in Scotland, and when the Palace of Blenheim was the gift of a grateful nation to a great general, the name was part of the extraordinary honor.
	www.ipedia.com /palace.html (728 words)

	Going from Good to Bad: The History of Bridewell Palace
		Bridewell’s transformation from a palace to a hospital, an apprentices’ school, and finally a prison demonstrates the cycle of cruel treatment towards the inmates in the sixteenth century to the end of inhumane punishment and discipline of the prisoners in the mid nineteenth century when Bridewell finally shuts its doors as a prison.
		Bridewell was now into the next stage of its existence, a hospital for the poor and unwanted, and it gave them shelter (351).
		Cowie informs the reader, “Bridewell Palace now marks the centre of the site of the old palace, and there exist on New Bridge Street the court room and other offices in which the Hospital’s endowments are administered for charitable and educational purposes” (358).
	www.umd.umich.edu /casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/mucha1.htm (1209 words)

	Bridewell Palace - Invitation to a Funeral tour of Restoration London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bridewell Palace stood on a vast site along the western bank of the Fleet River, reaching up from the Thames to the present day Fleet Street.
		The palace became a bit of a tourist attraction for those whose idea of a good day out was watching half-naked women being flogged.
		Bridewell whippings became so popular that a balustraded gallery had to be built to hold all the onlookers.
	www.okima.com /tour/bridewell.html (354 words)

	Hampton Court Palace - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hampton Court Palace is a former royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
		The palace is located 11.7 miles (18.9 km) south west of Charing Cross and upstream of Central London on the River Thames.
		In 1604, the Palace was the site of King James I of England's meeting with representatives of the English Puritans, known as the Hampton Court Conference; while agreement with the Puritans was not reached, the meeting led to James's commissioning of the King James Version of the Bible.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Hampton_Court (1345 words)

	Newport Pagnell Police Museum - The Bridewell
		The Bridewell or House of Correction was known as the Workhouse.
		As a result of efforts by Bishop Ridley of London, in a letter to Sir William Cecil, the King's secretary, the decayed king's palace of Bridewell was given to the mayor, commonalty, and citizens of London in 1553.
		The hospital was used as a house of correction for all strumpets, night-walkers, pickpockets, vagrants and incorrigible and disobedient servants.
	www.mkheritage.co.uk /nppm/bridewell.html (565 words)

	dekkerjackson
		In Bridewell, Hippolito and Matheo are shamed into reforming and Orlando makes public the private charity he has been offering all along to his daughter and son-in-law.
		Bethlem and Bridewell were not held in contempt by the London society in the way we hold them in contempt, but they were emblems -unusual and humble perhaps-of civic pride.
		Bridewell allows Orlando to perform publicly and more effectively the private charitable deed he set out in act I. After the humiliating "cure" of Matheo and Hippolito, Dekker presents a display of prostitutes.
	www.geocities.com /katacheson/dekkjackson.html (5628 words)

	City of Westminster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Both the Palace and the Abbey were extended by successive monarchs; offices of the government were established in the vicinity; courtiers, administrators and the nobility took up residence.
		Two of these (Bridewell Palace and Baynard Castle) were situated in the City and no trace of either remains; three others were here in Westminster within a mile of each other.
		The original Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire in 1834 and was replaced shortly after by the present building, better known as the Houses of Parliament.
	www.jbutler.org.uk /London/Westminster/index.shtml (735 words)

	Thornfield and Bridewell: Two Different Homes, One Prison
		She compares the third story room in Thornfield to a prison-like atmosphere in that it is “In a room without a window, there burnt a fire guarded by a high and strong fender, and a lamp suspended from the ceiling by a chain” (289; ch.
		This description of Bertha’s “prison” room is similar to the woman’s ward at Bridewell as Cowie describes it as being, “a large brick room in an attic story in their side of the building with a fireplace and shuttered, though unglazed, windows” (Cowie 352).
		She uses foreshadowing to tune readers into awareness that the charade word being “Bridewell” is a red flag that marriage and imprisonment are surely going to be revealed soon.
	www.umd.umich.edu /casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/mucha2.htm (1868 words)

	Edinburgh Bridewell - Linking to the City
		This undated drawing (Fig1.) by Robert Adam, held at the Sir John Soane's Museum, is for gates for the Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh.
		Fig 3 The Palace of Holyrood House, Edinburgh..
		Fig 4 The Palace of Holyrood House, Edinburgh.
	www.scran.ac.uk /dl/ada/documents/castle_style/bridewell/holyrood_gates.htm (597 words)

	Eltham Palace - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Eltham Palace is an Art Deco house in Eltham, London, currently owned by English Heritage and open to the public.
		The original Palace was given to Edward II in 1305 and used as a royal residence from the 14th century to the 16th century.
		In 1933 Sir Stephen and Lady Virginia Courtauld acquired the lease of the palace site and restored the Great Hall while building a beautiful Art Deco home (Stephen was the younger brother of industrialist and art collector Samuel Courtauld, founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art).
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Eltham_Palace (290 words)

	LONAULI - LoveToKnow Article on LONAULI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Within the bounds of Westminster are the royal palaces, the government offices and many other of the finest public buildings, and the wider area specified includes the majority of the residences of the wealthier classes, the most beautiful parks and the most fashionable places of recreation.
		St James's Palace, at the north side of St James's Park, was acquired and rebuilt by Henry VIII., having been formerly a hospital founded in the I2th century for leprous maidens.
		Marlborough House, adjacent to the palace, was built by the first duke of Marlborough in 1710 from the designs of Wren, came into possession of the Crown in 1817, and has been occupied since 1863 by the prince of Wales.
	www.1911ency.org /L/LO/LONAULI.htm (18894 words)

	Jean E. Howard: "Civic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity in Dekker's The Honest Whore"
		Given by Edward VI to the city in 1553, Bridewell was a place where vagrants, homeless children, disorderly women, and a variety of petty criminals were incarcerated, whipped, and in theory, put to work beating hemp or cleaning the ditches and sewers of the city (O'Donoghue).
		Vagrants who landed in Bridewell were after a short time typically sent with a pass back to their parishes of origin.
		In the second play, in Bridewell, again under the Duke's watchful eye, Hippoplyto's marriage is reconfirmed; Matheo the prodigal is reconciled to Bellafront and sent to live with her in her father's house; and Candido is released from bondage and again taken to court.
	eserver.org /emc/1-1/howard.html (6984 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Bridewell
		Bridewell’s prominent position in the daily life of London is testified to by the frequency with which references to the prison appear in the literature of the period; it also serves as the setting for the fourth panel of William Hogarth’s The Harlot’s Progress.
		The visionary Anna Trapnel…..she was an active part of the Fifth Monarchists……, she was arrested, putted on trial, and sent to Bridewell (the female London jail).
		BRIDEWELL, a district of London between Fleet Street and the Thames, so called from the well of St Bride or St Bridget close by.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/877.php (442 words)

	London History
		He also erected Bridewell Palace (the name derives from an ancient holy well), south of Fleet Street just west of the city, when the Royal apartments at Whitehall were wrecked by fire.
		New lodgings at Bridewell were needed to house the retinue of the Emperor Charles V when he visited London in 1522.
		King Edward VI gave Bridewell Palace to the city as a boys' training house for industry (and also a penitentiary).
	www.britannia.com /history/londonhistory/tudlon.html (1336 words)

	KES Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He donated Bridewell Palace to house it, on the north bank of the Thames, not far from Fleet Street.
		Although the palace no longer exists the site can be identified in the area of Bridewell Lane, the Bridewell Institute and Theatre and St Bride's Church.
		The aim was to provide education for the City's needy children and, as the school enters its 450th anniversary year in celebratory mood, a substantial proportion of its five hundred pupils are still benefiting from bursary assistance, true to its founding purpose.
	www.kesw.surrey.sch.uk /news/ay2003/mar6.htm (539 words)

	Route 4: The South Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Winchester Palace was built in the 12th Century as the town residence and palace for the bishops of Winchester.
		This stands on the site of Bridewell Palace, built by Henry VIII in 1522 and where he received Charles V, who decided to stay in Blackfriars Monastry on what was then the far side of the Fleet River.
		In 1834 the entire palace was burnt down, with the exception of Westminster Hall and the crypt of St Stephen's Chapel.
	www.serpentine.org.uk /routes/04 (5173 words)

	Archives of Bridewell Hospital in BRHAM website
		Bridewell Hospital was founded in 1553 by King Edward VI, occupying the former royal palace of Bridewell which fronted onto the Thames at Blackfriars.
		Although initially intended as a workhouse, it functioned mainly as a house of correction and prison for petty offenders until the 19th century.
		As two of the Royal Hospitals of the City of London, Bridewell and Bethlem were closely linked for much of their history, sharing a joint administration from the 1570s until the advent of the National Health Service in 1948.
	www.bethlemheritage.org.uk /archbridewell.html (362 words)

	"THE CARLISLE COCKNEY": WHATEVER COMES INTO MY HEAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Palace of Whitehall was the main residence of the English monarchs in London from 1530 until 1698 when all except Inigo Jones' 1622 Banqueting House was destroyed by fire.
		By the 13th century, the Palace of Westminster had become the centre of government in England, and had been the main London residence of the king since 1049.
		In 1691, when the palace was the largest palace complex in Europe — and a jumble of buildings — a fire destoyed much of the older palace structures.
	www.20six.co.uk /weblogCategory/1xoclplh19ghq?d=9.8.2004 (2004 words)

	A Walking Tour of Elizabethan and Jacobean Southwark
		Henry VIII had a palace (Bridewell Place) nearby (where the Unilever House is now), and received Charles V there in 1522.
		In 1619, 200 orphans from Bridewell were sent to help populate the new colony of Virginia.
		All that remains of the palace is the 14th century Rose Window which was part of the Great Hall.
	www.cofc.edu /~mccandla/walk-Southwark.htm (1273 words)

	The Tudors and the Tower of London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Henry wanted his court to be as splendid as any in Europe, and the Tower wasn't nearly elegant enough to be used regularly as a residence.
		However, shortly after Henry VIII was crowned, his chief London residence, the medieval Palace of Westminster, was destroyed by fire.
		After Henry VIII's death all his personal armor was stored in Greenwich Palace, but one suit was brought to the Tower by the end of Elizabeth I's reign.
	tudors.crispen.org /tower/henry_viii.html (617 words)

	BRIEF HISTORY DURING THE SNOW ERA
		Built in 1618 in Westminster on a toot hill, the British term for the highest ground in an area, was the Bridewell Prison.
		The same title was used for several prisons, so named after a former royal palace, given to London by King Edward VI in 1553 to serve as a jail.
		In an 1843 map, the prison was cited as the New Bridewell Prison.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/snow/1859map/bridewell_prison_a2.html (217 words)

	About Henry FITZROY (D. Richmond)
		James Palace, soon after Anne Boleyn's execution and just as an act was going through Parliament to enable the King to nominate him as the heir to the throne.
		Henry entrusted the funeral arrangements to the Duke of Norfolk, Fitzroy's father-in-law, and gave orders that the body be wrapped in lead and taken in a closed cart for secret interment.
		Had the Duke of Richmond still been alive, then he might have been there, at his palace of Collyweston, by Stamford, with an army at least as large as the 5,000 men the Duke of Suffolk brought with him.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /aboutHenryFitzroy.htm (960 words)

	Untitled Document
		The House of Correction was used as a solution to the inefficiency of the punishment methods that were used to prevent begging, petty thieving and moral slackness.
		the first house of correction in England was located in the former palace at Bridewell, in the City of London, which opened in December 1556.
		In Hereford the Bridewell was situated on the Castle Green just off the centre of the City.
	www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk /post-medieval/prisons/development.htm (1699 words)

	KES Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Lord Mayor congratulated them on the 450th Anniversary of the school's Foundation and spoke about our origins in the Bridewell Palace, which originally stood on the North Bank of the Thames, close to Fleet Street.
		The Lord Mayor said that the City of London was proud of the school and although King Edward's moved to Witley in 1867, "London is your spiritual home and your roots are in the City".
		The annual Service of Thanksgiving at St Bride's Church, held last week, was a moving occasion, as usual attended by the Lord Mayor of London and dignitaries from the City Livery Companies, together with pupils, parents and staff.
	www.kesw.surrey.sch.uk /news/ay2003/mar21.htm (368 words)

	Manners, Customs, and Observances: Their Origin and Significance: Patron Saints and Their Attributes
		Bridget (October 8th) is regarded as the patroness of fallen women, not because she was at any time of her life unchaste, but from the fact that Henry VIII.'s palace of Bridewell, i.e., beside the well of St. Bride or Bridget, was converted into a House of Correction for refractory females.
		She is represented in Christian Art with a lamp in one hand, typical of heavenly light and wisdom and a cross in the other, as the foundress of the first community of religious women in Ireland, or, indeed, in the VVestern World.
		There are in heaven rich palaces without number, which were prepared from the beginning of the world for those who purchase the possession through faith and charity.
	www.sacred-texts.com /etc/mco/ml10.htm (10095 words)

	Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of London ...
		Where the City Bridewell now stands there is said to have been anciently a holy well of medicinal water, called St. Bride's Well, upon which was founded an hospital for the poor.
		After this, the houses of correction in various parts of the country got to be called "bridewells "-the particular name coming, in course of time, to be used as a general term for a place of penitentiary amendment.
		A "house of correction" is now understood to be a place of safe custody, punishment, and reformation, to which criminals are committed when sentenced to imprisonment for terms varying from seven days up to two years.
	www.victorianlondon.org /publications5/prisons-05.htm (8385 words)

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