The Marshalsea

For the hamlet in Dorset see Marshalsea, Dorset

The Marshalsea was one of the five prisons in Southwark, London. Image File history File links Marshalsea. ... Image File history File links Marshalsea. ... The Borough or Southwark is an area of the London Borough of Southwark situated 1. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Marshalsea Prison was originally the prison of the Marshalsea Court. It is not known when the original prison building, near present-day Mermaid Court, was built, but it was attacked during the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. It declined in importance and in 1729 was housing some 300 debtors; 70 years later it was vacant and in such poor repair that it was later demolished. The Marshalsea Court (or Court of the Marshalsea) was a court associated with the Royal Household in England. ... The end of the revolt: Wat Tyler killed by Walworth while Richard II watches, and a second image of Richard addressing the crowd The Peasants Revolt, Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising of 1381 was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and is a...

The second Marshalsea Prison was built on the site of another former prison, the White Lion, just north of St George's, Southwark on Borough High Street, and opened in 1811. However, its history was shortlived; it closed in 1842 when an Act of Parliament reduced the incidence of imprisonment for debt. As a debtor's prison though, the Marshalsea became notorious as the place where Charles Dickens' father was imprisoned for debt; it also features as a location in Dickens' book Little Dorrit and David Copperfield. Borough High Street is the last section of the road from Dover to London as it approaches London Bridge. ... A debtors prison is a prison for people unable to pay a debt to another creditor. ... Dickens redirects here. ... Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. ...

Most of the prison was finally demolished in 1849, but some buildings were used by an ironmonger, and later as a printing house: the Marshalsea Press. Some parts survived until the 1970s. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Marshalsea inmates

• Edmund Bonner
• Henry Chettle
• Richard Cox
• John Dickens and Elizabeth Barrow , parents of Charles Dickens
• Sir John Eliot
• Hannah Glasse
• Nicholas Grimald
• Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles
• John Gerard, S.J.
• Ben Jonson
• George Morland
• John Selden
• Ralph Sherwin
• Robert Wingfield
• George Wither

Edmund Boner (1500?- 5th September, 1569), Bishop of London, was an English bishop. ... Henry Chettle (1564?-1607?) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era. ... Richard Cox (c. ... Dickens redirects here. ... Sir John Eliot (April 11, 1592 - November 27, 1632), English statesman, son of Richard Eliot (1546 - June 22, 1609) and Bridget Carswell (c. ... Hannah Glasse was a housewife in the 1700s. ... Nicholas Grimald (or Grimoald) (1519-1562), English poet, was born in Huntingdonshire, the son probably of Giovanni Baptista Grimaldi, who had been a clerk in the service of Empson and Dudley in the reign of Henry VII. He was educated at Christs College, Cambridge, where he took his B... Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles (October 31, 1599 - February 17, 1680) was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642. ... John Gerard, S.J. (1564-1606) was an English Jesuit priest. ... For other persons of the same name, see Ben Johnson (disambiguation). ... George Morland (1763-1804) was an English painter of animals and rustic scenes. ... John Selden (December 16, 1584 - November 30, 1654) was an English jurist, legal antiquary and oriental scholar. ... St Ralph Sherwin (1550–1 December 1581) was an English Roman Catholic martyr and saint. ... Sir Robert Wingfield of Lethringham (1403-1454) in Lethringham, England was a son of a senior Sir Robert Wingfield (c. ... George Wither (June 11, 1588 – May 2, 1667) was an English poet and satirist. ...

External links

• Article on the remains of Marshalsea
• London Footprints article