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Marshalsea

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Marshalsea
ancient London prison, long used for incarcerating debtors. [Br. Hist.: Benét, 640]
See : Imprisonment


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Some of my readers may have an interest in being informed whether or no any portions of the Marshalsea Prison are yet standing.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
The condemned felon has as good a yard for air and exercise in Newgate, as the insolvent debtor in the Marshalsea Prison.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
When he was ten years old his father was imprisoned for debt (like Micawber, in the Marshalsea prison), and he was put to work in the cellar of a London shoe-blacking factory.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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