CHAPTER I.

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Course of the Fleet—Derivation of its Name—The River of	1
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	13
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	25
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	39
Well—St. Chad's Well-water

CHAPTER V.

Medicinal Waters—Spas—The White Conduit—White Conduit	53
House—White Conduit Gardens

CHAPTER VI.

Sadler's Discovery—Miles's Musick House—A Man Eats a	67
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	77
Gwyn's Houses—Bagnigge House

CHAPTER VIII.

Bagnigge Wells—The Organist—Different Proprietors—
"Punch" on Bagnigge Wells—Decadence of the Wells	87

CHAPTER IX.

Cold Bath Fields Prison

99

CHAPTER X.

The "Cold Bath"—Cold Baths—Sir John Oldcastle—Archery—Tea	111
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	127
of the Riots

CHAPTER XII.

Fighting—Hockley-in-the-Hole—Bear Baiting—Bear Gardens—Bull	137
Baiting—Sword Play

CHAPTER XIII.

Mount Pleasant—Saffron Hill—Old House in West Street—Fagin—Field	153
Lane—Thieves

CHAPTER XIV.

Bleeding Hart Yard—Ely Place—John of Gaunt—Ely Chapel—Turnmill	163
Brook—The Fleet—Holborn Bridge

CHAPTER XV.

Lamb's Conduit—Clerkenwell—Fleet Market—Rye-House	179
Plot—Fleet Bridge

CHAPTER XVI.

Alderman Waithman—John Wilkes—Ludgate Prison—Sir	193
Stephen Foster

CHAPTER XVII.

Bridewell—Montfichet Castle—Fuller on Bridewell—Ward	205
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	223
the Fleet

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The Fleet Prison.

CHAPTER XIX.

History of the Fleet Prison—Female Wardens—Settlement of	229
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	243
Warden's Troubles

CHAPTER XXI.

The Warden of the Fleet—Purchase of Wardenship—Bad	255
Discipline—Boundaries of the Fleet—Preference for the
Fleet

CHAPTER XXII.

Complaints of the Warden—The Warden keeps Corpses—Huggins	265
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

279

CHAPTER XXIV.

Garnish—The "Common Side"—Howard's Report—Regulations	293
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

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CHAPTER XXV.

Escape of Prisoners—A Gang of Forgers—Abolition of Imprisonment	313
for Debt—Prisoners Object to move—Opposition
to Removal—"The Last Days of the Fleet"—Sale
of the Fleet Prison—Begging Grate—Richard
Oastler

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Fleet Marriages.

CHAPTER XXVI.

Illegal Marriages—Cost of Marriages—Peculiars—Suppression	327
of Irregular Marriages—A Fleet Parson's Reflections—Fleet
Parsons—An Heiress Married

CHAPTER XXVII.

John Gaynam—The Bishop of Hell—Edward Ashwell—John	339
Floud—Walter Wyatt

CHAPTER XXVIII.

The Lilleys—Fleet Parsons—Parson Keith

351

CHAPTER XXIX.

"The Bunter's Wedding"—Fleet Parsons—Exchange of	363
Wives—Singular Marriage—Irregular Marriage

CHAPTER XXX.

A Runaway Marriage—Fortune's Married—Illegal Marriage—Fleet	375
Marriage Registers—Extracts from Registers—End
of Marriages

INDEX

386

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