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The Fleet. Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages - John Ashton 1888
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early wwork about Fleet, the river, the prison and marriages.
The River.
Chapter I. Course of the Fleet--Derivation of its Name--The River of
Wells--The Fleet choked up--Cleansing the Fleet--The Fleet
Navigable--Wells--Ponds and Pools
Chapter II. Water Supply of London--The Fleet to be Cleansed--Smell of the
River--Prehistoric London--Antiquarian Discoveries--Cleansing the Fleet--Fouling
the River--Rivers rising at Hampstead--The Tye-bourne--The West-bourne--Course
of the West-bourne
Chapter III. Course of the Fleet--The Hampstead Ponds--Rural Fleet--Gospel
Oak--Parliament Hill--Kentish Town--Brown's Dairy--Castle Inn--St. Pancras
Wells--Burials at St. Pancras--the Brill
Chapter IV. Battle Bridge--King's Cross--The Dust-heaps--St. Chad's Well--St.
Chad's Well-water
Chapter V. Medicinal Waters--Spas--The White Conduit--White Conduit House--White
Conduit Gardens
Chapter VI. Sadler's Discovery--Miles's Musick House--A Man Eats a Live Cock,
&c.--Forcer, the Proprietor--Macklin on Sadler's Wells--Actors at Sadler's
Wells--The Pindar of Wakefield
Chapter VII. "Black Mary's Hole"--Its Disappearance--Bagnigge Wells--Nell Gwyn's
Houses--Bagnigge House
Chapter VIII. Bagnigge Wells--The Organist--Different Proprietors--"Punch" on
Bagnigge Wells--Decadence of the Wells
Chapter IX. Cold Bath Fields Prison
Chapter X. The "Cold Bath"--Cold Baths--Sir John Oldcastle--Archery--Tea
Gardens--Small Pox Hospital--The Pantheon--Lady Huntingdon's Chapel--Lady
Huntingdon
Chapter XI. The Spencean System--Orator Hunt--Riot in the City--Riots--End of
the Riots
Chapter XII. Fighting--Hockley-in-the-Hole--Bear Baiting--Bear Gardens--Bull
Baiting--Sword Play
Chapter XIII. Mount Pleasant--Saffron Hill--Old House in West
Street--Fagin--Field Lane--Thieves
Chapter XIV. Bleeding Hart Yard--Ely Place--John of Gaunt--Ely Chapel--Turnmill
Brook--The Fleet--Holborn Bridge
Chapter XV. Lamb's Conduit--Clerkenwell--Fleet Market--Rye-House Plot--Fleet
Bridge
Chapter XVI. Alderman Waithman--John Wilkes--Ludgate Prison--Sir Stephen Foster
Chapter XVII. Bridewell--Montfichet Castle--Fuller on Bridewell--Ward on
Bridewell--Howard on Bridewell--Bridewell Prison-- The City and
Apprentices--Mother Cresswell--Bridewell Court Room
Chapter XVIII. Alsatia--Whitefriars--Deaths in the Fleet--Ben Jonson and the
Fleet 223
The Fleet Prison.
Chapter XIX.
History of the Fleet Prison--Female Wardens--Settlement of
Fees--Liberty of Prisoners--Filthy State of the Fleet--A
Quarrelsome Knight--Preference for the Fleet Prison--Sir John Falstaff--Cardinal
Wolsey
Chapter XX.
Prisoners--Puritans--Bibliography of Fleet Prison--A Warden's Troubles
Chapter XXI.
The Warden of the Fleet--Purchase of Wardenship--Bad
Discipline--Boundaries of the Fleet--Preference for the Fleet
Chapter
XXII.
Complaints of the Warden--The Warden keeps Corpses--Huggins
and Bambridge--Castell--The First Prisoner
in Irons--Acquittal of Huggins and Bambridge--Bambridge and his
Prisoners--Chapel in the Fleet Bagging
Chapter
XXIII. Admission to the Fleet Prison--The _Humours_ of the Fleet
Chapter
XXIV.
Garnish--The "Common Side"--Howard's Report--Regulations
of the Prison--Gordon Riots--Burning of the
Fleet Prison--Fleet Prison Rebuilt--The "Bare"--Racket
Masters--A Whistling Shop--A Mock Election
"_Dum Vivimus, Vivamus_"--Number of Prisoners--Destitution
Chapter
XXV.
Escape of Prisoners--A Gang of Forgers--Abolition of
Imprisonment for Debt--Prisoners Object to move--Opposition
to Removal--"The Last Days of the Fleet"--Sale
of the Fleet Prison--Begging Grate--Richard Oastler
Fleet Marriages.
Chapter
XXVI.
Illegal Marriages--Cost of Marriages--_Peculiars_--Suppression
of Irregular Marriages--A Fleet Parson's Reflections--Fleet Parsons--An
Heiress Married
Chapter
XXVII.
John Gaynam--The Bishop of Hell--Edward Ashwell--John
Floud--Walter Wyatt
Chapter
XXVIII.
The Lilleys--Fleet Parsons--Parson Keith
Chapter
XXIX.
"The Bunter's Wedding"--Fleet Parsons--Exchange of Wives--Singular
Marriage--Irregular Marriage
Chapter
XXX.
A Runaway Marriage--Fortune's Married--Illegal Marriage--Fleet
Marriage Registers--Extracts from Registers--End of Marriages
[Illustration: END OF HOLBORN BRIDGE, TAKEN FROM THE SOUTH, AND PART OF HOLBORN HILL. JUNE 2, 1840. (_Art. Crosby._)]
END OF HOLBORN BRIDGE, TAKEN FROM THE SOUTH, AND PART OF HOLBORN HILL, JUNE 2, 1840 175
HOLBORN BRIDGE 177
LAMB'S CONDUIT, SNOW HILL 181
FLEET MARKET, FROM HOLBORN BRIDGE 187
BRIDEWELL BRIDGE 207
WOMEN BEATING HEMP 213
PASS ROOM, BRIDEWELL, 1808 215
THE ARREST 228
BAMBRIDGE 273
A PRISONER IN IRONS 274
THE COMMON SIDE OF THE FLEET PRISON 278
THE FLEET PRISON 296
RACKETS IN THE FLEET PRISON, 1760 303
A WHISTLING SHOP IN THE FLEET, 1821 306
AUTOGRAPH DONE AT THE PARLOUR NO. 1, PALAIS DE LA FLETE, THIS 24 DAY JUNE 311
FARRINGDON STREET AND THE FLEET PRISON 322
GROUND PLAN OF FLEET PRISON 323
SECTION OF THE PRISON 323
EXTERIOR OF THE GRATE 324
A FLEET WEDDING 362
THE SAILOR'S FLEET WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT 364
ILLUSTRATIONS WILL ALSO BE FOUND AT PAGES 171, 172, 184, 280, 294, 304, 307,
308, 319, 335.
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