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opposite house of the Blackfriars. A
little higher up stream than the Black¬
friars was the famous Fleet Prison,
which figures in so many books,
memoirs, and novels. The exact site
is marked by one of the city eyesores,
a hall built in a kind of mock-Gothic
for a meeting-place for Dissenters.
The prison was taken down in 1844.
The Fleet river still runs in a kind
of sewer underground, and discharges
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the city in the reign of Edward
VI; and now chiefly memorable
as having given its name to the
smaller local houses of detention
throughout the country.
In front of us is the place
through which formerly flowed
the tidal waters of the Fleet ; and
we read in Sfow that when the
fmperor Charles V visited Henry
VIII, his suite was lodged in
Bridewell, and a bridge having
been specially made for the pur¬
pose, the Emperor occupied the