Date:1602
Description:Documents in the Sutherland Papers suggest that Sallaway’s loan wouldn’t go very far in financing Sir Walter’s maintenance at Fleet Prison. A list of Sir Walter’s debts includes an item ‘for mony paid to the warden by Mr John Skevington for Sir Walters dyett as appearethe by acquittances from the clerke of the Fleete one hundred seaven poundes eight shillinges’. The document suggests that prisoners were required to pay considerable sums to the Fleet’s Prison Warden for their maintenance. The entry also indicates Sir Walter’s reliance on his relatives to fund his incarceration. Sir John Skevington may have been the son of William Skevington, his Father’s Brother in Law and Walter’s Uncle by marriage. Documents relating to Sir Walter’s imprisonment in Fleet Prison inform us about Sir Walter’s desperate financial situation towards the end of his life, reflecting his dependence on members of his extended family. These documents also tell us about English prisons during this time, providing firsthand evidence of life as a prisoner in one of England’s most infamous prisons.
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Fleet Prison in London was a notorious debtors prison which housed hundred of debtors and their families ...
Documents in the Sutherland Papers suggest that Sallaway’s loan wouldn’t go very far in financing Sir ...
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