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     • Hundreds of debtors were crammed into tiny, barred rooms often originally meant for one. Life for Debtors Over half the Marshalsea’s prisoners were there for debts under £20. Unable to pay jail fees, they faced starvation, disease, and often death. Wealthier inmates could afford private rooms and privileges.
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   How many debtors were living in Marshalsea?

   • When the prison reformer James Neildvisited the first Marshalsea in December 1802, just 34 debtors were living there, along with eight wives and seven children. Neild wrote that it was in "a most ruinous and insecure state, and the habitations of the debtors wretched in the extreme". There had been riots in the prison in 1749 and 1768.

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   What are the records of debtors' prisons?

   • Records of debtors' prisons from the seventeeth to nineteenth centuries, relating both to individual prisoners and prison administration. They comprise those of the: The records of the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons were transferred to the Marshal of the Queen's Prison under section three of the Queen's Prison Act 1842.

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   Where can I find records of Marshalsea?

   • National Archives. "Records of the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons", 1628–1862. National Archives. "Prison of the Marshalsea of the King's Household and Palace Court, and the Queen's Prison: Records", 1773–1861. External links [edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marshalsea.

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   What happened at Marshalsea prison?

   • Poverty-stricken Londoners found themselves sent to the Marshalsea Prison until they could pay off their debts or until their creditors decided they'd been punished enough and signed their release. Some of the poor wretches inside did not get out except in a shroud or cheap coffin. The prison opened to welcome its inmates in the 14th century.

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   When did the Marshalsea close?

   • The Marshalsea dates from medieval times and closed in 1842, being demolished soon afterwards. All that is left to be seen of this once notorious debtors' prison is this length of the wall in Angel Court.

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   How long did the Marshalsea last?

   • Although the first Marshalsea survived for 500 years, and the second for just 38, it is the latter that became widely known, thanks largely to Charles Dickens, whose father, John Dickens, was sent there on 20 February 1824, under the Insolvent Debtor's Act 1813.

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   When the prison reformer James Neild visited the first Marshalsea in December 1802, just 34 debtors were living there, along with eight wives and seven children.

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   Nov 19, 2020 · By the 18th and 19th centuries, thousands of people were incarcerated in this manner in Britain, and the inmates of a number of prisons – including the Fleet and the Marshalsea in London – were exclusively debtors. What kinds of people served time in these prisons? Debt was a classless crime.

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   Sep 16, 2024 · In later periods it was a major debtors' prison and also held Admiralty prisoners: smugglers, those charged with excise offences, and sailors who had been court-martialled. It was abolished under...

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   Sep 16, 2024 · Title: Records of the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons. Description: Records of debtors' prisons from the seventeeth to nineteenth centuries, relating both to individual prisoners...

   • Date: 1628-1862
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   Jul 8, 2024 · For several hundred years, a prison in London held all manner of miscreants, but in its later years, it became the place where debtors were incarcerated. Learn what life was like for those inside Marshalsea Prison.

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   Marshalsea, a prison formerly existing in Southwark, London, on the south bank of the Thames and attached to the court of that name held by the steward and marshal of the English (later British) king. It existed as early as the reign of Edward III. It was consolidated in 1842 with the Queen’s Bench.

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   Just alongside the busy Borough High Street, by the rear of St. George’s Church, stood for many years the smallest of our debtors’ prisons, the Marshalsea. Charles Dickens' father, John Dickens, was incarcerated here for debt in 1824. Charles was only 12 years old at the time.