Poultry Compter (also known as Poultry Counter) was a small prison that stood at Poultry, part of Cheapside in the City of London. The compter was used...
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debtors. Examples of compters include London's Wood Street Compter, Poultry Compter, Giltspur Street Compter and Borough Compter and the lock-up over...
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the purchase and preparation of poultry Poultry, London, a street in the City of London, United Kingdom Poultry Compter, a former prison located on the...
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other, the Poultry Compter, located on the Poultry. Both were destroyed during the Great Fire of London in 1666, although the Poultry Compter was rebuilt...
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thoroughfare, the Poultry has since 1850 been entirely changed in character and aspect." The street gave its name to a prison, Poultry Compter. It was a brick...
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occupation in 1791. In 1815 it took some prisoners from the nearby Poultry Compter prior to its closure. The Giltspur Street prison was itself closed...
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following his recognition by the local vicar at Ratcliff and imprisoned in Poultry Compter while efforts were made to find some pretext for a capital charge....
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a man was arrested at the Mansion House, London, and sent to the Poultry Compter. He confirmed that he had accepted a wager of 10 guineas (equal to...
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Cambridgeshire Historic Northallerton Northallerton North Yorkshire Closed 2014 Poultry Compter City of London London Historic Prince Rupert's Tower Liverpool Merseyside...
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cxxxiii) Whitecross Street Prison. Newgate Prison. Giltspur Street Compter and Poultry Compter. Ludgate. Start of session Wikisource has original text related...
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lifelong problem with debt (he had earlier, 1599, been imprisoned in Poultry Compter) reached a crisis when he was imprisoned in the King's Bench Prison...
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to Gascoyne that she had perjured herself. She was committed to the Poultry Compter, where the Canningites continued to support her until they learnt that...
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executed. Rowland Taylor, who remained committed, was probably taken to Poultry Compter Prison in London after his examination by Gardiner. Taylor gave a fervent...
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Fields Prison, Fleet Prison, Giltspur Street Compter, King's Bench Prison, Marshalsea Prison, Poultry Compter, and Wood Street Counter. The most famous was...
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Jesus as a lay brother. He was arrested in 1594 and tortured at the Poultry Compter but revealed nothing. He was released after a wealthy Catholic family...
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employed him as his assistant and procured for him the chaplaincy to the Poultry Compter. He also held a lectureship in the city. At this period he took a house...
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London) The Sheriffs' Court for the Poultry Compter (City of London) The Sheriffs' Court for the Giltspur Street Compter (City of London) The Macclesfield...
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places the Gifford family in Devon, and associates Humfrey with the Poultry Compter - a prison in Cheapside in the City of London - whether as an official...
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Sir Henry Ellis, ed. The Obituary of Richard Smyth, Secondary of the Poultry Compter, London. Camden Society, London: 1849, 47. McKerrow, R.B. A dictionary...
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and William Stansby, were imprisoned. John Allde spent time in the Poultry Compter in 1568 for printing a pro-Catholic text. (Both the Tudor and Stuart...
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men were found in the house and detained in the Compter Prison in Wood Street and the Poultry Compter. Richard Martin allowed Edmund's wife, Anna Williamson...
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was arrested on the coast, brought to London, and committed to the Poultry Compter. About two years later his aunt, Mrs. Blount, obtained his release...
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Tower of London, Ludgate, Newgate, Ely Place (from 1642), Poultry Compter, Wood Street Compter, the Fleet, Bridewell, Clerkenwell Bridewell, the Gatehouse...
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turned evidence against his accomplices. She was also imprisoned at the Poultry Compter several times. She became acquainted with a poor and industrious woman...
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of London Sheriffs' Court for the Poultry Compter The City of London Sheriffs' Court for the Giltspur Street Compter The Macclesfield Court of Portmote...
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Lord Orrery's Mr. Anthony. During 1677 Underhill was confined in the Poultry Compter for debt, at the suit of William Allen. His liberty was demanded in...
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Waddington that on 2 April 1593 Greenham visited John Penry in the Poultry Compter. Henry Holland implies that he survived the affair of Lopez, February–June...
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with Nicholas Owen. He was tried, found guilty and sent to the Compter in the Poultry. Later he was moved to the Clink prison where he was able to meet...
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Tower Hill. In September 1578 he was confined for about a month in the Poultry Compter, a small prison run by a Sheriff in the City of London, apparently...
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is pedestrianised. On its western side it is joined to Wood Street by Compter Passage (pedestrianised). On its eastern side it is joined by Russia Row...
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