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Organise main prison in nineteenth century London
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marshalsea
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Wiktionary
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n. (context UK English) The court or seat of a marshal.
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Run privately for profit, as were all English prisons until the 19th century, the Marshalsea looked like an Oxbridge college and functioned as an extortion racket. Debtors in the 18th century who could afford the prison fees had access to a bar, shop and ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marshalsea \Mar"shal*sea\, n. [Marshal + OE. se a seat. See See a seat.] The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. Court of Marshalsea , a court formerly held before the steward ...
Usage examples of marshalsea.
Lord Marshalsea, Alicia monitored all those who paid court to her younger sister.
It would get him nowhere with a jury at the end of a long trial, with him bewildered in a court-room and badgered by the prosecution and maybe the judge - certainly the judge in this case - but man to man in that two-pair front at the Marshalsea - why, as the Romans say, you would give him the blessed sacrament without confession.
When I approached the subject at the Marshalsea he did not take it at all well.
At the Marshalsea Stephen found it difficult to make his way through the naval side because of the number of sailors gathered there, most of them talking at the same time and all of them exceedingly angry.
I had received some parcels upon credit, took out a writ against me, by virtue of which I was arrested and imprisoned in the Marshalsea, where I found my first seducer.
His earlier days were passed in complete obscurity, none but the neediest spendthrift or the most desperate gambler knowing where he dwelt, and every one who found him out in his wretched abode near the Marshalsea had reason to regret his visit.
In the same year Thomas Kneseworth, the late mayor, was committed to the Marshalsea, together with the sheriffs who had served under him, and only regained his liberty on payment of a large sum of money.
Ridley was sent to the Tower and Bonner brought out from the Marshalsea and reinstated in the bishophric of London.
Henry were actually hauled off to the Marshalsea, I daresay I might gallop to the rescue, after a few days there had taught him a lesson.
When his debts overwhelmed him and he was carried off to the Marshalsea prison, Charles was only ten years old, but already he took the lead in the house.
The prisoners were taken to the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark, and there found their old companion, Lieutenant Williams.
One of the ladies of his house at Deptford, to be revenged for some slight or other, gave information to the watch, and Kennedy was imprisoned at Marshalsea and afterwards tried for robbery and piracy.
When Gow and his crew eventually arrived in irons at the Marshalsea Prison, they found Williams already there awaiting trial.
That meant contacting the Marshalsea of Toulouse for help, which meant that the reward for the recovery of the stolen jewels would slip out of his fingers into theirs.
Webbes his sending for me to come to him to the Marshalsea, now when he looked to be condemned on the Monday or Tuesday next.