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Marshalsea   Listen
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Marshalsea  n.  The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. (Eng.)
Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between the king's domestic servants.





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... black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure &c 232; isolation (exclusion) 893; penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod [Lat.]; calaboose, chauki^, choky^, thana^; workhouse [U.S.]. Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea; King's Bench, Queen's Bench. bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples^; vice, vise. yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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