Show F Famous English Prison I The Fleet was a famous prison In London built over o the Fleta Fieta or Fleet a once small creek now a sewer sew sew- er ere It was founded In 1180 and became became be be- came a debtors debtors' prison In 1040 It was burned In the great reat fire of ot 1000 1684 and again In the Gordon riots of ot 1780 1180 was rebuilt In 82 1781 and finally demolished de de- In 1845 Many distinguished men were confined there and Pope called It the Haunt of ot the the Muses from the number of ot poets Imprisoned within Its walls Fleet prison was also notorious for tor the so-called so Fleet marriages performed there by clergymen clergymen clergymen clergy clergy- men Imprisoned for tor debt They were the occasion of Innumerable sc scandals and were finally declared Illegal b by an nn act of parlament In 1753 Kansas City Star |