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- The Marshalsea prison was located on the south bank of the River Thames in the London borough of Southwark, near London Bridge. For over 500 years (at least from 1329 until its closure in 1842) the prison housed those convicted of subversion, sailors who had mutinied, those accused of piracy and, above all, debtors who failed to pay their debts.
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The Marshalsea (1373–1842) was a notorious prison in Southwark, just south of the River Thames. Although it housed a variety of prisoners—including men accused of crimes at sea and political figures charged with sedition —it became known, in particular, for its incarceration of the poorest of London's debtors. [ 1 ]
The Marshalsea Prison was a debtors' prison which is mentioned frequently in the works of Charles Dickens. The Marshalsea prison was located on the south bank of the River Thames in the London borough of Southwark, near London Bridge.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 6, 2017 · There is a comprehensive analysis of the ruthless ways in which everyone from simple turnkeys, charged with the day to day running of the prison, to notorious deputy marshals, such as William Acton, ‘skinned the flint’ in order to exploit the inmates for profit.
The early history of the Marshalsea prison is inextricably mixed with that of the King's Bench. As has already been shown (p. 9), the Marshal often kept prisoners in Southwark in the 13th century and had a permanent building there in the 14th century.
Nov 28, 2008 · debtors, debtors gaols, dickens, dorrit, education, links, little dorrit, marshalsea, transcribed, Victorian. David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens' fiction - what were...
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.
