Compter

Finsbury, were the usual exercising-grounds for the train-bands.] [Footnote 296: The Compter was a prison for the city of London, where debtors and others were confined.] [Footnote 297: Steele wrote at length in the _Spectator_ (No. 436) of a trial of skill in the noble art of self-defence at Hockley-in-the-Hole; and in No. 630 there is an allusion to the gladiators of

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

They have done really well by me, always Mothering me thru the Compter to get this test or that eye check.

Dems Address Paying For It - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

Compter, and the bustle and noise of the city; and just on that particular part of Snow Hill where omnibus horses going eastward seriously think of falling down on purpose, and where horses in hackney cabriolets going westward not unfrequently fall by accident, is the coach – yard of the

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

I love my prisoners; and I have had as good prisoners under my key as they have had in Newgate or the Compter.

Kenilworth 2004

With its reputation for lawlessness and civil disorder, it is no coincidence that the district of Southwark had no less than five prisons -- the Clink, the Compter, the King's Bench, the Marshalsea, and the White Lion.

Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner Jessica A. Browner 1994

Upon Friday before Palm Sunday, he was committed to the Compter in Bread-street, and afterward examined and condemned by the bloody bishop.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

When Dr. Taylor had lain in the Compter about a week, on the 4th of

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

After his excommunication and delivery over to the secular power, he was brought by the sheriff of London to the Compter, a prison in his own parish of Bread-street, at which he rejoiced greatly, both because he found there a fellow-prisoner, Mr. Cardmaker, with whom he had much christian and comfortable discourse; and because out of prison, as before in his pulpit, he might have an opportunity of preaching to his parishioners.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

Compter, Ludgate Prison and the Fleet, he obtained in that time a total of one hundred and thirty-two, to whom in every case the prest-shilling was paid.

The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

Poultry Compter with its grim entrance and wondered whether the coach would go straight on to Cornhill and then turn northward towards

Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce