Fleet Prison was a notorious London prison by the side of the River Fleet. The prison was built in 1197, was rebuilt several times, and was in use until...
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river Fleet Prison, named after the river Fleet Line, named after the river, was the original name for the London Underground Jubillee Line Fleet, Lincolnshire...
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March 25, 1754. Specifically, it was one which took place in London's Fleet Prison or its environs during the 17th and, especially, the early 18th century...
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Thomas Bambridge (category British prison governors)
attorney who became a notorious warden of the Fleet Prison in London. Bambridge became warden of the Fleet in 1728. He had paid, with another person, £5...
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visitors; others (including the Fleet and King's Bench Prisons) even allowed inmates to live a short distance outside the prison—a practice known as the 'Liberty...
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excavations revealed remains of a Roman amphitheatre near Ludgate on what was Fleet Prison, but other accounts suggest the area was too marshy for regular inhabitation...
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John Falstaff (category Inmates of Fleet Prison)
Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully...
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John Donne (category Inmates of Fleet Prison)
this wedding ruined Donne's career, getting him dismissed and put in Fleet Prison, along with the Church of England priest Samuel Brooke, who married them...
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A Rake's Progress (section VII – The Prison)
prostitution and gambling, and as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam). The original paintings are...
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Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom (section Members of Parliament who were executed, died in prison or escaped justice)
Second World Casualty by Commonwealth War Graves Commission: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, 1st Baronet, later 1st Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge (Royal...
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