CHAPTER XXX

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A Runaway Marriage--Fortune's Married--Illegal Marriage--Fleet Marriage Registers--Extracts from Registers--End of Marriages 375

INDEX 386

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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SHEPHERD'S WELL, HAMPSTEAD 22

THE FLEET, KENTISH TOWN 28

VIEW OF THE VALLEY OF THE FLEET AND HIGHGATE CHURCH, FROM FORTESS TERRACE, KENTISH TOWN, SEPT. 28, 1845 29

THE FLEET AT KENTISH TOWN 30, 31

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

CASTLE, KENTISH TOWN ROAD, 1848 35

THE BRILL 37

BATTLE BRIDGE 40, 41, 42

DUST HEAP AT BATTLE BRIDGE 45

ST. CHAD'S WELL 49

THE WHITE CONDUIT 54, 62

STONE IN THE WHITE CONDUIT 57

WHITE CONDUIT GARDENS (INTERIOR) 64

" " " (EXTERIOR) 65

THE PINDAR OF WAKEFIELD 75

BAGNIGGE HOUSE 82

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 BAGNIGGE ORGANIST 91

THE ANCIENT RIVER FLEET, AT CLERKENWELL, 1825 100

SOUTH VIEW OF THE COLD BATHS 113

THE SMALLPOX HOSPITAL IN COLD BATH FIELDS 118

VIEW OF NORTHAMPTON OR SPA FIELDS CHAPEL, WITH THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON'S HOUSE ADJOINING 124

FAGIN, THE JEW 159

FIELD LANE NEGOTIATIONS; OR, A SPECIMEN OF "FINE DRAWING" 160

ELY HOUSE 1784 169

END OF HOLBORN BRIDGE, TAKEN FROM THE SOUTH, AND PART OF HOLBORN HILL, JUNE 2, 1840 175

HOLBORN BRIDGE 177

LAMB'S CONDUIT, SNOW HILL 181

FLEET MARKET, FROM HOLBORN BRIDGE 187

BRIDEWELL BRIDGE 207

WOMEN BEATING HEMP 213

PASS ROOM, BRIDEWELL, 1808 215

THE ARREST 228

BAMBRIDGE 273

A PRISONER IN IRONS 274

THE COMMON SIDE OF THE FLEET PRISON 278

THE FLEET PRISON 296

RACKETS IN THE FLEET PRISON, 1760 303

A WHISTLING SHOP IN THE FLEET, 1821 306

AUTOGRAPH DONE AT THE PARLOUR NO. 1, PALAIS DE LA FLETE, THIS 24 DAY JUNE 311

FARRINGDON STREET AND THE FLEET PRISON 322

GROUND PLAN OF FLEET PRISON 323

SECTION OF THE PRISON 323

EXTERIOR OF THE GRATE 324

A FLEET WEDDING 362

THE SAILOR'S FLEET WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT 364

ILLUSTRATIONS WILL ALSO BE FOUND AT PAGES 171, 172, 184, 280, 294, 304, 307, 308, 319, 335.

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_The Fleet:_

Its River, Prison, and Marriages.

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