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The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages

Chapter 2: The Fleet ITS RIVER, PRISON, AND MARRIAGES
By John Ashton
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A richly illustrated local history follows a modest London tributary from its headwaters through suburbs into the Thames, documenting its ponds, wells, conduits, and lost open reaches, and describing the spas, pleasure gardens, markets, and everyday trades along its banks. It also provides a detailed institutional history of the adjacent prison and related courts, explores riots, crime, punishments, and popular entertainments, and collects anecdotes, maps, and engravings that record vanished urban landscapes and social customs.

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Title: The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages

Author: John Ashton

Release date: December 21, 2015 [eBook #50730]

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Brian Wilsden, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

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from page images generously made available by
Internet Archive
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Transcriber's Note:

A single click on an illustration or decoration will give an enlarged view.

The letters 'u' and 'v' are often interchanged; as, e.g., "in haruest time" and "vnder a bridge".

Some of the spelling is very old, and often phonetic (they wrote as they heard it spoken, dialects and all).

An additional transcriber's note is at the end of the text.

 

 

 

 

The cover image was produced by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

THE FLEET.

The Fleet

ITS RIVER, PRISON, AND MARRIAGES

BY

JOHN ASHTON

(Author of "Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne," "Dawn of the Nineteenth
Century," &c., &c., &c.)

ILLUSTRATED BY

PICTURES FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AND ENGRAVINGS

New York

SCRIBNER AND WELFORD

1888

VIEW OF MOUTH OF THE FLEET circa 1765.