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     • The End of Marshalsea The prison was closed in 1842 by an Act of Parliament, with most of the buildings demolished in the 1870’s.
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   When was Marshalsea closed?

   • Closure and abolition [edit] 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 hospitalif they were mentally ill, or to the King's Bench Prison, at that point renamed the Queen's Prison.

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   What was the Marshalsea prison?

   • 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.

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   What happened to the Marshalsea?

   • He was put into lodgings at nearby Lant Street, and sent out to work in a blacking factory, on the north bank of the Thames, site of a present-day foot of Hungerford Bridge. The Marshalsea dates from medieval times and closed in 1842, being demolished soon afterwards.

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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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   What happened at the first Marshalsea prison?

   • The sick men’s ward at the first Marshalsea prison, 1729. Picture from wikimedia commons. A parliamentary committee established in 1729 found that 300 inmates had died of starvation in a 3 month period and 8-10 were dying every 24 hours in warmer weather. It could be an incredibly vicious cycle and for often near impossible to break out of.

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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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   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]

4. livinglondonhistory.com › the-remains-of-a-lostThe Remains Of A Lost Prison Near Borough Market

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   Mar 23, 2022 · The End of Marshalsea. The prison was closed in 1842 by an Act of Parliament, with most of the buildings demolished in the 1870’s. Only this ominous, imposing wall remains, serving as a reminder of the area’s dark past.

5. knowledgeoflondon.com › marshalseaThe Marshalsea Prison - Knowledge of London

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   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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6. www.dickenslit.com › places › marshalseaMarshalsea Prison - the debtors' prison that Dickens wrote about

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   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. In Victorian England, people could be jailed indefinitely for nonpayment of debt.

7. media.nationalarchives.gov.uk › index › the-realThe real Little Dorrit: Charles Dickens and the debtors’ prison

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   Nov 28, 2008 · And really, the big event in Dickens’ life is in 1824, when his father, John Dickens, was arrested for debt, and imprisoned in the Marshalsea, and as a result, Charles, who was only 12 at the...

8. theprison.org.uk › SouthwarkMarshalseaMarshalsea Debtors' Prison, Southwark, London

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   In 1842, the Marshalsea was closed and its inmates were transferred to the Queen's Prison, as also happened with the Fleet Prison.

9. www.historyextra.com › period › victorianDebtors' Prisons: How Bad Were They, And When Were They ...

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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.