- The Wood Street Compter was still active in 1727 when The London Gazette (6 July p4) listed 13 insolvent debtors awaiting court on 25 August.
- Wood Street Compter was also reconstructed in its original site off Wood Street, continuing without pause as a debtor and petty criminals’ holding pen.
- Wood Street was preceded by Bread Street until 1555 and succeeded in 1791 by Giltspur Street, but essentially the heyday of compters involved the three...
- The Wood Street Compter was opened in 1555 to replace the existing Bread Street Compter , whose keeper's misconduct had led to its closure.
- ...Feast of St. Michael the Archangel in that year, the prisoners were removed from the Old Compter in Bread Street to the New Compter in Wood Street, Cheapside.
- The newest of the compters, Giltspur Street opened in 1791, replacing Wood Street and absorbing some of Poultry’s inmates when that institution closed in 1817.
- She was confined in the Wood Street Compter at the instigation of Thomas Paine , a printer she had used.
- "Wood-Street Compter" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL. Wood-Street Compter LAW AND LEGAL. Definition: The name of an old prison in London.
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- Definition of WOOD-STREET COMPTER: Thename of an old prison in London.
- However, the register of Cheapside’s Woodstreet Compter for 1765-66 provides a rare variation.
- First mention: The Compter in Bread Street was removed to Wood Street in 1555 (S. 298) and Greyfriars' Chronicle (Cam. Soc.), p.96.
- The register of entries was called the Black Book. Garnish was demanded at every step, and the Wood Street Compter was hung with the story of the prodigal son.
