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Records of the Fleet Prison
Catalogue reference: Division within PRIS
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Division within PRIS
Records of the Fleet Prison from 1685 to 1842 relating to the imprisonment of debtors, bankrupts and people charged with contempt of court. Commitment books are in PRIS 1; files in PRIS 2; and discharge books in PRIS 3
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Division within PRIS
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Fleet Prison
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Date (When the record was created)
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1686-1842
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Fleet Prison from 1685 to 1842 relating to the imprisonment of debtors, bankrupts and people charged with contempt of court. Commitment books are in PRIS 1; files in PRIS 2; and discharge books in PRIS 3
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Registers of clandestine marriages from 1667, and of some baptisms, performed in or near the Fleet Prison are in RG 7
For similar records after 1842 see
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some records were burnt in the Fleet prison during the Gordon riots of 1780.
Books formerly in the Fleet Prison are in
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Fleet Prison, 1300-1842
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 series
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Prisons
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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From the middle ages onwards, the ancient Fleet Prison was a prison for debtors and bankrupts and for persons charged with contempt of the Courts of Chancery, Exchequer and Common Pleas; it was also a place of confinement for persons committed from the Court of Star Chamber. It stood on the east bank of the Fleet River in London.
By the Queen's Prison Act 1842, the Fleet Prison was abolished and its inmates and functions were transferred to the Queen's Prison.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1215/
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