Prisons

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

Eight enumerated by Strype: "The Gate House" (q.v.), "The Fleet," Compters of the Poultry and Wood Street," "Ludgate," "The Marshalsea," " Kings Bench," " White Lion " (I. 269).


"The Marshalsea" was in Southwark, See "Francheprison"

Many of the City Gates were also used as prisons.