Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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great place for the Reformers to study the Common Justice system:
c.1553 Founding of Bridewell Hospital, London (see 1530-40).
http://www.chronology.ndo.co.uk/1500-1699.htm
London ca. 1676 London Prison
Bridewell’s prominent position in the daily life of London is testified to by the frequency with which references to the prison appear in the literature of the period; it also serves as the setting for the fourth panel of William Hogarth’s The Harlot’s Progress.Marked on map as tudor street between lugate/fleet and embankment and blackfriars place
Bridewell prison and hospital. Many (IN)famous people spent some of their Life studying the finer points of life:
Both Reeve and Muggleton (Muggletonians) were imprisoned in Old Bridewell Prison (London) during 1653 for their beliefs
The visionary Anna Trapnel…..she was an active part of the Fifth Monarchists……, she was arrested, putted on trial, and sent to Bridewell (the female London jail).
…..On the 17th January 1657, Nayler was taken to Bridewell Prison and locked into a damp, dark cell. He would remain there for two and a half years and, although the order was that he be kept without pen and paper, he managed to produce some of his finest work.1 It was gathered together and published in 1716:Locatedbetween fleet street south to river & white fryers stairs to fleet river (now Blackfriars bridge)
http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/map-farr1.htma tale of Restoration intrigue by Molly Brown : Bridewell Palace:
http://www.okima.com/tour/bridewell.htmlhttp://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/bridewell_prison_a2.html
http://www.crbs.umd.edu/programs/atw/atw5/plenaries/mowry.html
http://www.kings-ripton.com/History/James_Nayler.htm
http://www.exlibris.org/nonconform/engdis/muggleton.html
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Good ol’ http://67.1911encyclopedia.org
BRIDEWELL, a district of London between Fleet Street and the Thames, so called from the well of St Bride or St Bridget close by. From William the Conqueror’s time, a castle or Norman tower, long the occasional residence of the kings of .England, stood there by the Fleet ditch. Henry VIII., Stow says, built there ” a stately and beautiful house,” specially for the housing of the emperor Charles V. and his suite in 1525. During the hearing of the divorce suit by the Cardinals at Blackfriars, Henry and Catharine of Aragon lived there. In 1553 Edward VI. made it over to the city as a penitentiary, a house of correction for vagabonds and loose women; and it was formally taken possession of by the lord mayor and corporation in 1555. The greater part of the building was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666.
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Sam and Bridewell after the diary years
He became a governor (member of the governing board?) of Bridewell Prison in 1675.
— Claire Tomalin, “Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self,” Chapter 21, p 297
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Bridewell palace 1660 pix;
http://www.corpoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/lma_learning/schoolmate/Irish/sm_irish_timeline_image.asp?ID=sm0147.jpg
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Bridewell Prison is near Bridewell dock, where the Fleet River joins the Thames.
Church No. 103 is St Brides.
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“Bridewell” as palace, poorhouse and proverbial prison
