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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

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