CONTENTS.
The River.
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
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