Fleet Prison

To make the condemnation the more impressive, it was further ordained that there should be a public burning in St. Paul's Cathedral to follow a sermon by the Bishop of Rochester at Paul's Cross.

On the 4th of May, 1530, accordingly, a procession was formed from the Fleet Prison to the Cathedral.

The warden of the Fleet was there, and the Knight Marshal, and the tipstaffs, and all the company they could make, with bills and glides.

In the midst of these officials there marched six men in penitential dress, bearing faggots and lighted tapers.

However this may be with tailors in the East and legislators in the West, the hereditary keeper of Edward's palace of Westminster did not prove to be a very effective custodian of his master's property.

His name was John Shench, or Senchay, and he held two hereditary offices, that of keeper of the King's palace at Westminster, and also the keepership of the Fleet Prison, in right of his wife Joan, who had inherited both from her father.

Thus, in addition to the keepership of the palace, John Shenchay kept the King's prison of the Fleet in the city of London.

As a rule, John and his wife Joan had their habitation in the prison in the city.

What really happened seems to me to have been something like this.

I have no doubt that Publicut got into the treasury by the simple process of his friend Adam of Warfield giving him facilities for forcing the door or perhaps breaking a window.

He remained in the crypt a long time so that he might hand out its contents to confederates who, as we learn from the depositions, ate, drank, and reveled till midnight for two nights running in a house within the precincts of the fleet prison, and then went armed and horsed to Westminster, returning towards daybreak loaded with booty.

But not only the revelers and Chinchi's headquarters, but many monks, many abbey servants, the custodians of the palace, the leading goldsmiths of the city, and half the neighbors must have been cognizant of, if not participating in, the crime.

However this may be with tailors in the East and legislators in the West, the hereditary keeper of Edward's Palace of Westminster did not prove to be a very effective custodian of his master's property.

His name was John Shenche, or Senche, and he held two hereditary offices, that of keeper of the King's Palace at Westminster, and also the keepership of the Fleet Prison, in right of his wife Joan, who had inherited both from her father.

Thus, in addition to the keepership of the palace, John Shenche kept the King's Prison of the Fleet in the City of London.

As a rule, John and his wife Joan had their habitation in the prison in the city.

What really happened seems to me to have been something like this.

I have no doubt that Publicot got into the treasury by the simple process of his friend, Adam of Warfield, giving him facilities for forcing the door or perhaps breaking a window.

He remained in the crypt a long time so that he might hand out its contents to confederates who, as we learn from the depositions, ate, drank, and reveled till midnight for two nights running in a house within the precincts of the Fleet Prison, and then went armed and horsed to Westminster, returning towards daybreak loaded with booty.

But not only the revelers in Chinche's headquarters, but many monks, many abbey servants, the custodians of the palace, the leading goldsmiths of the city, and half the neighbors must have been cognizant of, if not participating in, the crime.

However this may be with tailors in the East and legislators in the West, the hereditary keeper of Edward's palace of Westminster did not prove to be a very effective custodian of his master's property.

His name was John Shenche, or Senche, and he held two hereditary offices, that of keeper of the king's palace at Westminster, and also the keepership of the Fleet Prison, in right of his wife Joan, who had inherited both from her father.

Thus, in addition to the keepership of the palace, John Shenche kept the king's prison of the Fleet in the city of London.

As a rule, John and his wife Joan had their habitation in the prison in the city.

What really happened seems to me to have been something like this.

I have no doubt that Publican got into the treasury by the simple process of his friend Adam of Warfield giving him facilities for forcing the door or perhaps breaking a window.

He remained in the crypt a long time so that he might hand out its contents to confederates who, as we learn from the depositions, ate, drank, and reveled till midnight for two nights running in a house within the precincts of the fleet prison, and then went armed and horsed to Westminster, returning towards daybreak loaded with booty.

But not only the revelers and Chinchi's headquarters, but many monks, many abbey servants, the custodians of the palace, the leading goldsmiths of the city, and half the neighbors must have been cognizant of, if not participating in, the crime.

His new owner was found in a public house, and was not unwilling to part with him, as Billy, though a main good-tempered creature, as he told the equestrians, is so full of all manner of tricks that we calls him the Mountebank.

Saunders, at this time a prisoner for debt in the now demolished Fleet Prison, was well known as a showman and equestrian for three-quarters of a century.

Many who remember him as the proprietor of a travelling circus, visiting the fairs throughout the south of England, are not aware that he once had a lease of the old Royalty Theatre, and that, in 1808, he opened, as a circus, the concert rooms afterwards known as the Queen's Theatre, now the Prince of Wales'.

After experiencing many vicissitudes, he fell in his old age into poverty, owing to two heavy losses, namely, by the burning of the Royalty Theatre, and by the drowning of fifteen horses at sea, the vessel in which they were being transported being wrecked in a storm.

They could scarcely believe their eyes, but could doubt no longer when the animal, on receiving a signal to which he was accustomed, pricked up his ears and began to caper and curvet in a manner seldom seen out of the circle.

His new owner was found in a public house and was not unwilling to part with him, as Billy, though a main good-tempered creature, as he told the equestrians, "Is so full of all manner of tricks that we calls him the mountebank." Saunders, at this time a prisoner for debt in the now demolished Fleet Prison, was well known as a showman and equestrian for three-quarters of a century.

Many who remember him as the proprietor of a traveling circus visiting the fairs throughout the south of England are not aware that he once had a lease of the old Royalty Theatre, and that in 1808 he opened as a circus the concert rooms afterwards known as the Queen's Theatre, now the Prince of Wales's.

After experiencing many vicissitudes, he fell in his old age into poverty owing to two heavy losses, namely by the burning of the Royalty Theatre and by the drowning of 15 horses at sea, the vessel in which they were being transported being wrecked in a storm.