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	Fleet Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the 18th century, Fleet Prison was mainly used for debtors and bankrupts.
		During the Gordon riots in 1780 Fleet Prison was again destroyed and rebuilt in 1781-1782.
		In 1842, in pursuance of an act of parliament, by which the Marshalsea, Fleet, and Queens Bench Prisons were consolidated into one under the name of Queens Prison, it was finally closed, and in 1844 sold to the corporation of the City of London, by whom it was pulled down in 1846.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fleet_Prison (430 words)

	FLEET PRISON - LoveToKnow Article on FLEET PRISON
		Fleet Marriages.By the law of England a marriage was recognized as valid, so long as the ceremony was conducted by a person in holy orders, even if those orders were not of the Church of England.
		The earliest recorded date of a Fleet marriage is 1613, while the earliest recorded in a Fleet register took place in 1674, but it was only on the prohibition of marriage without banns or licence that they began to be clandestine.
		The Fleet Registers, consisting of about two or three hundred large registers and about a thousand rough or pocket books, eventually came into private hands, but were purchased by the government in 1821, and are now deposited in the office of the registrar-general, Somerset House.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FL/FLEET_PRISON.htm (723 words)

	Fleet Marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Fleet Marriage is the best-known example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage taking place in England before 1753.
		It was one which took place in London's Fleet Prison during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
		As a prison, the Fleet was claimed to be outside the jurisdiction of the church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fleet_Marriage (700 words)

	The Fleet Prison - Invitation to a Funeral tour of Restoration London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The prison was burned down in the Great Fire of 1666, but rebuilt much as before, consisting of several long buildings (with four upper storeys and a cellar) arranged around yards in which better-off prisoners might play rackets or skittles.
		The Fleet Prison management also supplemented its income by the provision of a prison tap room and coffee-room which were open to the public.
		Prisoners of the Fleet did not necessarily have to live within the prison itself; they could take lodgings close to the prison as long as they paid the keeper to compensate him for loss of earnings.
	www.okima.com /tour/fleet.html (366 words)

	London Prisons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Conditions in eighteenth-century prisons were, by modern standards, horrendous: most prisons were filthy and overcrowded, and little attention was paid to the welfare of the imprisoned.
		Newgate functioned as the City's primary prison, and the original gatehouse seems to have been sufficiently large for this purpose until the reign of Charles II; by the eighteenth-century, however, the prison was terribly overcrowded.
		Before the Civil Wars, the Fleet Prison seems to have largely been reserved for those committed by the Court of the Star Chamber, a prerogative court that was abolished just prior to the outbreak of the First Civil War.
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	Fleet Prison -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fleet Prison was a notorious (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London (A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment) prison.
		During the (Click link for more info and facts about 18th century) 18th century, Fleet Prison was mainly used for debtors and (Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts) bankrupts.
		The head of the prison was termed the (The chief official in charge of a prison) warden, who was appointed by (An official document granting a right or privilege) patent.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fl/fleet_prison.htm (495 words)

	Prisions
		The crimes were the focal point of interest, not the prison stay, in judging a man. The language and conditions of the prison were familiar to any pedestrian since the jails were not segregated from the public.
		The prison was built at Newgate in 1188 on the orders of Henry I, and was significantly enlarged in 1236.
		Two prisons of a different category were Bethlehem Hospital (or Bedlam as it was commonly called), a madhouse which operated as a concession under its Tudor administration.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Documents/Prisons.htm (871 words)

	Fleet Prison on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rebuilt after it was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, again after the great fire of 1666, and once more after the Gordon riots of 1780, it was finally demolished in 1845-46.
		Fleet marriages were clandestine and irregular ceremonies performed at Fleet Prison by debtor clergymen.
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	WebRoots Library U.S. Military (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This forenoon, as some of the prisoners were playing at ball in the prison yard, the ball happened to lodge in a spout that is placed under the eves of the prison to convey the water, when it rains, into the well in the yard.
		This afternoon one of the prisoners was sent down to the prison hospital; he had been so sick and weak for some days past, that when we were turned out into the yard, and the door locked, (they having driven him out,) as he could not walk, we were obliged to lead him.
		The masons and carpenters have been at work repairing an old prison in the yard; and this afternoon, as one of the laborers was at work, be pulled off his coat and hung it up against the prison, in the yard, and left the basket, that he had to bring slate in, with it.
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	Jane Austen Law
		The prisoners are brought to this court from Newgate by a passage that closely connects the two buildings; and there is a convenient place under the Sessions-House, in front, for detaining the prisoners till they are called upon their trials: there are also rooms for the grand and petty juries, with other accommodations.
		In the first court of the prison are fixed against the wall three large boards, containing an abstract of the various acts relative to the duties of the governor and conduct of the prisoners; they are placed at a convenient height for reading.
		The prison was founded as early as the first of Richard I.; it was also the place of confinement for such as had incurred the displeasure of that arbitrary court, the Star Chamber.
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	diamond geezer
		Fleet Street's association with the printed word began when William Caxton's apprentice Wynkyn de Worde set up a press at the eastern end of the street in the late 15th century.
		The prison is burnt to the ground by Wat Tyler and his revolting peasants (and later rebuilt).
		The prison is burnt to the ground during the Gordon Riots (and later rebuilt).
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	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2004044836
		Prison, until a late stage in British history, was used as a punishment only in a minority of criminal cases.
		In 1774, when there were 213 prisoners, the overcrowding in the place was caused by the fact that the incarcerated were joined by their wives and children.
		The Fleet Prison was burnt to the ground, but rebuilt in 1781-82, and in Victorian times it was one of the many debtors' prisons.
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		Until the nineteenth century, except for the King's Bench, Marshalsea and Fleet prisons (debtors prisons) and Newgate gaol which were all Crown prisons attached to the central courts, prisons were administered locally and were not the responsibility or property of central government.
		Registers of prisoners in various prisons may be found in PCOM 2, HO 23 (rented cells in county prisons) and HO 24 (Millbank, Parkhurst and Pentonville).
		The class includes prisoners' petitions between pieces 45 to 71 from 1820, which give the name of the gaol, petition number, name of insolvent, trade or profession, date of petition, date of hearing, attorney, adjudication of the court and when made, date of discharge and remarks.
	www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk /Leaflets/ri2195.htm (6398 words)

	BURGUM FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY
		The Fleet Prison was said to have had the highest fees in the country.
		The keeper of the prison was known as the warden of the Fleet, while the guards were known as "turnkeys".
		The Fleet Prison is decribed in "The Rake's Progress" by William Hogarth and by Charles Dickens in "The Pickwick Papers" (chapter 41).
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	Victorian London - Prisons and Penal System - Prisons - Fleet Prison
		In "the Riots" of 1780 the Fleet was destroyed by fire, and the prisoners liberated by the mob; consequently great part of the papers and prison records were lost.
		The latter prisoner would then provide himself with a common lodging, by letting which prisoners in the Fleet are known to have accumulated hundreds of pounds in the course of a few years.
		The outer walls were removed Feb.20th, 1846, and the prison abolished, pursuant to 5 and 6 Vict., c22, by which the three prisons, the Fleet, the Queen's Bench, and Marshalsea were consolidated, and made one by the name of the Queen's Prison.
	www.victorianlondon.org /prisons/fleetprison.htm (954 words)

	Fleet Prison
		Fleet Prison was situated off Faringdon Road and is now occupied by Caronne House.
		In the 1750s Fleet Prison was mainly used for debtors and bankrupts.
		The keeper is called the warden of the Fleet, and his fees from the prisoners for turning the key, for chamber rent, etc. and this amounts to a considerable sum.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /LONfleet.htm (249 words)

	hfphs_hertfordshire_genealogy_introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fleet Prison stood in Farringdon Street on the site now occupied by the Congregations Memorial Hall, and the area round it, known as the 'Rules of the Fleet', was bounded by Farringdon Street, Ludgate Hill, the Old Bailey and Fleet Lane, a somewhat insalubrious and notorious area of narrow alleys, courts and passages.
		Here debt prisoners giving suitable security were able to live and, where practicable, to continue their former occupations, but apparently not all the Fleet clergy were actually debtors.
		Most of the Fleet records are at the Public Record Office (P.R.O) in the class RG7; the piece numbers 1 to 273 and 833 are registers; 274 to 290 are indexes of names, often with no other information, while 291 to 832 are rough notebooks, all of pocket size and some in poor condition.
	www.hertsfhs.org.uk /hfphs42.html (1091 words)

	fleet - definition from Biology-Online.org
		A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; obsolete, except as a place name, as Fleet Street in London.
		A former prison in London, which originally stood near a stream, the Fleet (now filled up).
		Fleet parson, a clergyman of low character, in, or in the vicinity of, the Fleet prison, who was ready to unite persons in marriage (called Fleet marriage) at any hour, without public notice, witnesses, or consent of parents.
	www.biology-online.org /dictionary/fleet (239 words)

	Crimtim: A criminology and deviancy theory history timeline
		, who was a prisoner from 1827 to 1830, described it as "not a house of correction or penitentiary, but merely a prison of detention - a sort of metropolitan watch-house for the secure custody of persons about to be tried or executed...the great mass of prisoners...
		Men and women were in different parts of the prison and boys under fourteen were kept in a part of the prison known as the school - unless they were considered hardened offenders.
		Their meeting was friendly and concluded with Elizabeth urging the king to mark his reign by "the prisons being so reformed that punishment might become the reformation of criminals; by the lower classes being religiously educated; and by the slaves in their colonies being liberated".
	www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/crimtim.htm (3989 words)

	FLEET PRISON - Online Information article about FLEET PRISON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bench prisons were consolidated into one under the name of Queen's prison, it was finally closed, and in 1844 sold to the See also:
		He was guilty of the greatest extortions upon prisoners, and, in the words of a See also:
		The liberties or rules of the Fleet were the limits within which particular prisoners were allowed to reside outside the prison walls on observing certain conditions.
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	*HARBEN DICTIONARY WINDOW* (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fleet Prison.-On the eastern bank of the Fleet, and afterwards of the Canal and Fleet Market, in Farringdon Ward Without (Elmes, 1831), south of Fleet Lane.
		Continued to be celebrated within the Liberties of the Fleet until 1774, when they were declared null and void.
		The Liberties of the Fleet included the north side of Ludgate Hill and the Old Bailey to Fleet Lane, down that lane to the market, and on the east side along by the Fleet prison to the bottom of Ludgate Hill.
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	Fleet Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This custom made the prison long notorious for the crueltycruelties inflicted on prisoners.
		Eugene Svitak will be on probation for two years after he serves his prison sentence.
		The Power of Nightmares, a three-hour BBC documentary directed by Adam Curtis, is arguably the most important film about the "war on terrorism" since the events of September 11.
	www.infothis.com /find/Fleet_Prison (703 words)

	Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fleet can refer to several things: Fleet is the name of several places:
		Battle fleet, a term for a force composed of all battle-ready ships
		US Naval fleets are numbered odd in the Pacific or West, and even in the Atlantic or East.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fleet (143 words)

	Fleet Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		* the River Fleet, a subterranean river in London, England
		*Fleet, LincolnshireFleet, in the county of Lincolnshire, England
		*Fleet, HampshireFleet, in the county of Hampshire, England
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	PCA - Site Summary FAS02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition the distinct lack of structural evidence for this period suggests that at its founding during the 11th-12th centuries, the Fleet Prison was little more than a relatively small complex concentrated upon the less marshy and more accessible landward side of the eyot.
		A large chalk, ragstone and mortar wall was also observed possibly marking the perimeter of the Fleet Prison, or related to some of the larger internal structures of the prison.
		Ragstone, chalk or mortar walls discovered in trenches to the S and E are not consistent with the Prison perimeter wall found in the Fleet Valley Project and may thus represent a new enclosure wall parallel to the previous wall that incorporated marginal land to the W of the Prison.
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	Fleet Marriages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fleet marriages were irregular ceremonies that took place in an area centred on the Fleet prison in London during the later 1600s and first half of the 1700s.
		Often they were debtor prisoners themselves who were allowed to live within close proximity of the Fleet Prison.
		Occasionally, Fleet parsons were prepared to travel into the surrounding countryside - with the added bonus of travelling expenses.
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	Fleet Prison Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Men's Wives - Chapter VI. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A very happy day, indeed, it was when, returning from her visit to the Fleet, she found in her mother's sitting-room her dear grand rosewood piano, and every one of her music-books, which the kind-hearted tailor had purchased at the sale of Walker's effects.
		For Walker's cash in prison beginning presently to run low, and knowing quite well that the dear fellow could not exist there without the luxuries to which he had been accustomed, she borrowed money from her mother, until the poor old lady was a sec.
		She left it behind her one day at the Fleet prison, and some rascal stole it there; having the grace, however, to send Woolsey the ticket, signifying the place where it had been pawned.
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