Catalogue description Records of the Fleet Prison

Details of Division within PRIS
Reference: Division within PRIS
Title: Records of the Fleet Prison
Description:

Records of the Fleet Prison from 1685 to 1842 relating to the imprisonment of debtors, bankrupts and people charged with contempt of court. Commitment books are in PRIS 1; files in PRIS 2; and discharge books in PRIS 3
Date: 1686-1842
Related material:

For similar records after 1842 see Division within PRIS

Registers of clandestine marriages from 1667, and of some baptisms, performed in or near the Fleet Prison are in RG 7
Separated material:

Some records were burnt in the Fleet prison during the Gordon riots of 1780.

Books formerly in the Fleet Prison are in PRIS 10
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Fleet Prison, 1300-1842
Physical description: 3 series
Administrative / biographical background:

From the middle ages onwards, the ancient Fleet Prison was a prison for debtors and bankrupts and for persons charged with contempt of the Courts of Chancery, Exchequer and Common Pleas; it was also a place of confinement for persons committed from the Court of Star Chamber. It stood on the east bank of the Fleet River in London.

By the Queen's Prison Act 1842, the Fleet Prison was abolished and its inmates and functions were transferred to the Queen's Prison.

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