Escape of Prisoners--A Gang of Forgers--Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt--Prisoners Object to move--Opposition to Removal--"The Last Days of the Fleet"--Sale of the Fleet Prison--Begging Grate--Richard Oastler 313
Illegal Marriages--Cost of Marriages--_Peculiars_--Suppression of Irregular Marriages--A Fleet Parson's Reflections--Fleet Parsons--An Heiress Married 327
John Gaynam--The Bishop of Hell--Edward Ashwell--John Floud--Walter Wyatt 339
The Lilleys--Fleet Parsons--Parson Keith 351
"The Bunter's Wedding"--Fleet Parsons--Exchange of Wives--Singular Marriage--Irregular Marriage 363
A Runaway Marriage--Fortune's Married--Illegal Marriage--Fleet Marriage Registers--Extracts from Registers--End of Marriages 375
VIEW OF THE VALLEY OF THE FLEET AND HIGHGATE CHURCH, FROM FORTESS TERRACE, KENTISH TOWN, SEPT. 28, 1845 29
OLD HOUSE, KENTISH TOWN, SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN NELL GWYNNE'S 33
THE FLEET AT KENTISH TOWN--BROWNE'S DAIRY FARM, SEPT. 21, 1833 34
BAGNIGGE WELLS, NEAR BATTLE BRIDGE, ISLINGTON 85
A VIEW TAKEN FROM THE CENTER BRIDGE IN THE GARDENS OF BAGNIGGE WELLS 88
WAITER FROM THE BREAD AND BUTTER MANUFACTORY; OR, THE HUMOURS OF BAGNIGGE WELLS 89
THE BREAD AND BUTTER MANUFACTORY; OR, THE HUMOURS OF BAGNIGGE WELLS 89
A BAGNIGGE WELLS SCENE; OR, NO RESISTING TEMPTATION 90
THE ANCIENT RIVER FLEET, AT CLERKENWELL, 1825 100
THE SMALLPOX HOSPITAL IN COLD BATH FIELDS 118
VIEW OF NORTHAMPTON OR SPA FIELDS CHAPEL, WITH THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON'S HOUSE ADJOINING 124
FIELD LANE NEGOTIATIONS; OR, A SPECIMEN OF "FINE DRAWING" 160
END OF HOLBORN BRIDGE, TAKEN FROM THE SOUTH, AND PART OF HOLBORN HILL, JUNE 2, 1840 175
AUTOGRAPH DONE AT THE PARLOUR NO. 1, PALAIS DE LA FLETE, THIS 24 DAY JUNE 311
FARRINGDON STREET AND THE FLEET PRISON 322
THE SAILOR'S FLEET WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT 364
ILLUSTRATIONS WILL ALSO BE FOUND AT PAGES 171, 172, 184, 280, 294, 304, 307, 308, 319, 335.
Only a little tributary to the Thames, the River Fleet, generally, and ignominiously, called the Fleet _Ditch_, yet it is historically interesting, not only on account of the different places through which its murmuring stream meandered, almost all of which have some story of their own to tell, but the reminiscences of its Prison stand by themselves--pages of history, not to be blotted out, but to be recorded as valuable in illustration of the habits, and customs, of our forefathers.