Clerkenwell Bridewell (also known as 'Clerkenwell House of Correction') was a prison and correctional institute for prostitutes and vagrants located in...

sexual corruption. Clerkenwell was also the location of three prisons: the Clerkenwell Bridewell, Coldbath Fields Prison (later Clerkenwell Gaol) and the New...

for other prisons in London, including the Clerkenwell Bridewell (opened in 1615) and Tothill Fields Bridewell in Westminster. Similar institutions throughout...

be tried, on Clerkenwell Green to the south. The House of Detention was built on the site of two earlier prisons, the Clerkenwell Bridewell for convicted...

Bristol, originally a bridewell Bridewell Museum, Norwich Bridewell Police Station, Nottingham, England Clerkenwell Bridewell, London (served as prison between...

Gaol in Southwark, south London. Next-door was another prison, the Clerkenwell Bridewell for convicted criminals, built in around 1615. This closed in 1794...

Middlesex House of Detention, also known as Clerkenwell Prison (formerly the site of Clerkenwell Bridewell and the New Prison). (The prison was demolished...

House of Correction and Clerkenwell Gaol and informally known as the Steel, was a prison in the Mount Pleasant area of Clerkenwell, London. Founded in the...

Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy debuts here. c. 1615 – Clerkenwell Bridewell (prison) is in operation. 1616 The Anchor Brewery is established...

Wood Street Compter, the Fleet, Bridewell, Clerkenwell Bridewell, the Gatehouse at Westminster, Tothill Fields Bridewell, the Clink, the Marshalsea, the...

bribing officials. One account stated that she had been to the Clerkenwell Bridewell 28 times and was once sentenced to New Prison for the theft of 104...

institutions: Tothill Fields Bridewell Coldbath Fields Prison, London. Also known as the Middlesex House of Correction and Clerkenwell Gaol Middlesex House of...

Bedlam by the Governors of the Bridewell Prison were unsuccessful, and the inevitable quarrel with the Governors of Bridewell merely made him more enemies...

Farringdon Street. The line of the former river marks the western boundary of Clerkenwell, the eastern boundary of Holborn and a small part of the eastern boundary...

John J. Breslin and Daniel Byrne was less than a fortnight in Richmond Bridewell when he vanished and escaped to France. David Bell evaded arrest, escaping...

17th century door, which had originally been part of the Tothill Fields Bridewell prison, was installed in the basement of the building. The building was...

cadaver effigy survives in the crypt of the Priory Church of St John, Clerkenwell in Middlesex (now in central London), the former headquarters of the...

at a meeting in Long Alley, Moorfields, and jailed in the New Bridewell at Clerkenwell, where three other disciples were sent to join them. During three...

granted Bridewell Palace, his lands at the Savoy, and rents and other chattels to create three Royal Hospitals – Christ's Hospital, Bridewell Hospital...

summer assizes were held at Abingdon, which was the site of the county bridewell. Knights of the shire were nominated at Reading and elected at Abingdon...

Bishop Ridley, to petition the King on behalf of the City for the grant of Bridewell Palace for the reception of vagrants and mendicants. Chester made generous...

into extramural settlements such as Shoreditch, Holborn, Cripplegate, Clerkenwell and Southwark, and the Inns of Court. To the West it reached along Strand...

Canal Act 1776 (16 Geo. 3. c. 32) Volunteers Act 1780 (20 Geo. 3. c. 37) Clerkenwell (Poor Relief) Act 1775 (15 Geo. 3. c. 23) River Douglas Navigation Act...

well; for she was born with the name of Cresswell, lived at Clerkenwell, and died in Bridewell." This story appears in many sources, but is probably apocryphal...

descend to ground level. Finding themselves in the yard of the neighbouring Bridewell, they clambered over the 22-foot-high (6.7 m) prison gate to freedom....

September 1865. As part of the raid, Rossa was arrested and held at Richmond Bridewell prison to await trial by the Special Commission on charges of treason...

Act 2008 (c. 12)) Westminster Bridewell Act 1826 (repealed) 7 Geo. 4. c. xlii 5 May 1826 An Act for building a new Bridewell or House of Correction for the...

birth Kent made arrangements to move to a property at Bartlet's Court in Clerkenwell, but by January 1760 it was not ready and so they moved instead to an...

Rector of St Leonard Foster Lane. 1820. Henry Budd, M.A. Minister of Bridewell Precinct. 1821. William St Andrew Vincent, M.A. Rector of Allhallows the...

of Clerkenwell". Fencing schools to teach young gentlemen the art of the duel existed across the city, including at Ely Place, Greyfriars, Bridewell, Artillery...