Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In England— The seat or court of the marshal of the royal household.
- n. [capitalized] A prison in Southwark. London, under the jurisdiction of the marshal of the royal household. It was abolished in 1842, and the prisoners, together with those from the Fleet prison, were placed in the Queen's Bench prison (known as the Queen's prison until its discontinuance in 1862).
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. engraving The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.
Etymologies
- marshal + Old English word for "seat". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Jooks and the Kelly – Cooks have been milking turnkeys and sucking the blood out of the marshalsea since the act of First Offenders.”
“So there you are now there they were, when all was over again, the four with them, setting around upin their judges’ chambers, in the muniment room, of their marshalsea, under the suspices of Lally, around their old traditional tables of the law like Somany Solans to talk it over rallthesameagain.”
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