[Report from Select Committee on Acts respecting Insolvent Debtors (1819),
Minutes of Evidence p.20.]
In 1824 vond zelfs een uitbreiding van de Rules van de Fleet plaats. The Times
berichtte hierover naar aanleiding van een zitting van de Court of Common Pleas
op 29 mei 1824:
The Prisoners confined in the Fleet lately presented a petition to this Court, setting
forth, that the rules of the prison were so limited as to occasion very considerable
inconvenience. There was no other place of worship within the extent of the rules,
but that which was within the prison itself; and addition to this, they stated, that
the houses within the rules did not afford sufficient accommodation for the
number of prisoners who were disposed to avail themselves of the benefit of those
rules. They therefore prayed he Court to grant such an enlargment of the rules of
the prison as would be sufficient to obviate those inconveniences. The LORD CHIEF
JUSTICE, on the sitting of the Court this morning, adverted to this petition, and ob
served, that the Court having taken the matter into consideration, were of
opinion, that the rules ought to be enlarged. They therefore ordered, that the limits
of the rules should extend from the prison-gate southward, to Chatham-place,
Blackfriars-bridge, including both sides of the way, except Fleet-market. They were
to extent from St.Paul's to Salisbury-court at one side, and Shoelane, on the other
side, of Fleetstreet, including the churches of Ludgatehill and St.Bride's, but ex
cepting Ave-Maria-lane and the Blackfriaris Gateway. - This direction was entered
as an order ot the Court.
De huizen in de 'Rules', zei Mr.Jones van King's Bench nog, staan niet onder mijn
gezag. De huren waren er niet hoger, a'an in andere delen van de stad.
In 1826 begon de wetgever het leven in de 'Rules' te beperken. De consolidatie-
wet van mei stond alleen een petitie aan de Insolvent Debtors' Court toe van een
