Bailey

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The outer wall of a feudal castle.

II. Bailey ·noun The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.

III. Bailey ·noun A prison or court of justice;

— used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester.

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The Bailey
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The Old Bailey
South from Newgate Street, at No.2, to 46 Ludgate Hill (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without....

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Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
(1836-1906) Poet and novelist, b. at Portsmouth, N.H., was for some time in a bank, and then engage...

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Bailey, Philip James
(1816-1902) Poet, s. of a journalist, b. at Nottingham, and ed. there and at Glasgow, of which he w...

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Great Old Bailey
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Little Bailey Street
On Little Tower Hill (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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Little Old Bailey
North-west out of Old Bailey at Fleet Lane to Snow Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without (L. and P. Commo...

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Ball Court, Old Bailey
East out of Old Bailey in Farringdon Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799). Former name : " Bell ...

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Green Arbour, Old Bailey
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Sessions House, Old Bailey
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Bell Savage Yard, Old Bailey
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Standard in the Old Bailey
Mentioned by Stow (391) and the waste of the water served the prisoners in Ludgate. ...

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