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The Borocgk PlTf/i Street.
In the Borough High Street, r.e.tr St. George's Church.'1
From a contemporary Enyro.vin;.
The Marshalsea Prison in the Boro'.
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The Entrance. The Marshalsea Prison in the Boro'. - i;
From a contemporary Print..,
"The smallest of our debtors' prisons, the Marshalsea. The condemned felon has as good a yard' for air and exercise in "Newgate as the insolvent, &eBCc
in the Marshalsea Prison." V. V.4.;
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This illustration is of interest as showing the Marshalsea of Dickens's period. Previous commentators'have erred ill giving the old prison,-highe^
street, as the one referred to by Dickens, but that was finally closed in 1813.
