A history of the Fleet prison : the anatomy of the Fleet / Roger Lee Brown.

New York : The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 1996.

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Prisons -- History.

Part One: The history of the prison

1. As bad as a standing army

2. Worse than if the Star Chamber was still subsisting

3. Number nine, Fleet Market

Part two: The administration of the prison

Part Three: The most lingering death : the prisoners

Part Four: The prince of prisons

Part Five: The privileges of the great and terrible leviathan

Endword

Appendices: 1 The wardens of the Fleet

2 Copy of the warden of the Fleet's patent, 1758

3 The rules of the Fleet prison

4 The prison fees, 1625

5 The fees of the prison, 1727

6 The 1729 table of fees

7 The rules regarding chummages

8 The reports of John Howard on the Fleet prison, 1777.

Includes bibliography and index.

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xviii, 353p., ill., maps.