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MARSHALSEA

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 773 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARSHALSEA  , a

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prison formerly existing in
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Southwark,
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London . It was attached to the
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court of that name held by the steward and
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marshal of the
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king's
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house (see
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LORD STEWARD and MARSHAL) . The date of its first
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establishment is unknown, but it existed as
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early as the reign of
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Edward III . It was consolidated in 1842 with the
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queen's
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bench and the
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Fleet, and was then described as " a prison for debtors and for persons charged with contempt of Her
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Majesty's courts of the Marshalsea, the court of the queen's
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palace of
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Westminster, and the high court of
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admiralty, and also for admiralty prisoners under
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sentence of courts
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martial." It was abolished in 1849 . The Marshalsea Prison is described in
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Charles
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Dickens' Little Dorrit .

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