FLEET PRISON

until 1846, existed as be | a debtors’ prison. Its site is now oocupied in| by a Congregational Ky built injin the Gothic style, on the east side of he | Farring don Street. It took its name from he | the Ficet, a brook which flowed down the "8, | Holborn a, to join the Thames at ag Black friars. iginally it was the _ prison, and it was used both during sb | Marian persecntions and for Star Chamber t| Teper thon by ‘ows, the Sao upon by y:| Reformer, who found there over 200 p.| debtors, with their wives and families. er Within the: precincts i) Siu eens aes S| Hinges” ‘These wore con in shell ky parkoes.” The so were parson a ed | of the prison, immured for debt, and they * ased tn 1753, 0 faring ma = os illegal vip n » Gee yn | unle solemnised in a a ooh or in | licensed chapol, after due announcement of of Oe [s. 145]