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Records of the Marshalsea Prison
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Records of the Marshalsea Prison from 1773-1861 relating to the imprisonment of debtors and Admiralty prisoners. All records are in PRIS 11
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- Records of the Marshalsea Prison
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Date (When the record was created)
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1773-1861
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Marshalsea Prison from 1773-1861 relating to the imprisonment of debtors and Admiralty prisoners. All records are in PRIS 11
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English
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- Marshalsea Prison, 1600-1842
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1 series
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By the late eighteenth century the prison of the Marshalsea lay on a site on the east side of Borough High Street, Southwark, not far from the King's Bench prison. The prison was originally a branch of the Court of the Verge and Marshal, the disciplinary department of the medieval royal household (not to be confused with the Marshal of the King's Bench who had responsibility for prisoners in the King's Bench prison). In later periods it was a major debtors' prison and also held Admiralty prisoners: smugglers, those charged with excise offences, and sailors who had been court-martialled.
It was abolished under the Queen's Prison Act 1842, and prisoners were transferred to the Queen's Prison.
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- In 1824 Charles Dickens' father was imprisoned in the Marshalsea, and in 1857 the prison was used as the setting for Little Dorrit.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1217/
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