Mentioned in Strype, I. i. 269 in a bequest to the prisons of London.
Qy. = Newgate, not otherwise mentioned.
·noun A house connected or associated with a gate. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Tenement of Robert Drope in parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate together with garden gate and ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
·vt To bind (together); to <<Enchain>>. II. Prison ·noun Specifically, a building for the safe cust...
The first occasion on which we read of a prison is in the history of Joseph in Egypt. Then Potiphar,...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
[For imprisonment as a punishment, see Punishments] It is plain that in Egypt special places were us...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
On the eastern bank of the Fleet, and afterwards of the Canal and Fleet Market, in Farringdon Ward W...
One fitted up for receiving and detaining prisoners of war. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book