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The Marshalsea was closed by an Act of Parliament (Public Act 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22) in 1842, and on 19 November that year the inmates were relocated to the Bethlem hospital if they were mentally ill, or to the King's Bench Prison, at that point renamed the Queen's Prison. [94]
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
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.
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 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.
The Marshalsea was the name of a former prison in Southwark, London, originally the prison of the Court of the Marshalsea, under the control of the knight marshal, and in later years used for the imprisonment of debtors. It was abolished in 1842.
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.
