[[Clink Prison]] [[Clink Prison Museum]] [[London]] [[Roman southwark]] In [[1144]] [[Henry of bloise ]] completed work on the new palace at Southwark. In [[12 century]] [[England]] medieval punishment was more akin to torture. the [[Clink Prison]] was originally created in [[1200]] In [[14th century]] [[Gaol]] the link is full of mostly petty criminals but because if the closeness to the [[thames river]] it regularly flooded leaving the prison full with diseases. The [[Clink Prison]] was funded by the Bishop but was privately owned. [[Ellen Butler]] was enticed to [[Bankside]] To work as a maid for [[Thomas Boyd]] believed to be an in keeper. Unfortunately [[Thomas Boyd]]faied evidence against her and she was prisoned and rumored to have died in the prison. The name “The Clink” came from the 15th century. Devices used in [[Clink Prison]] include [[the Pillory]] which held victim still and could be displayed elsewhere. Just a short walk from the [[Clink Prison]] exists the [[cross bones graveyard]] which also is known as the prostitues graveyard. It is believed 15000 bodies are there. Crossbones is honored today. [[The Winchester geese]] in [[bankside]] were known for its [[stewe houses]] aka brothels which provided income for the bishop. To be bitten by a geese is to have contracted a [[sexually transmitted infection]] [[Heretics]] and [[traitors]] were the most common prisoners in the group. [[London]] filled it’s prisons with priests convicted of being a heretic or traitor for their belief. The key involved players in this included [[Henry VIII]], [[Mary I]], [[Elizabeth I]], and [[James I]]. [[Father John Gerard]] and [[father William Weston]] managed to hold mass in the [[Clink Prison]] In the [[16th Century]] we also saw [[banned books]] famous people that were imprisoned included [[John Greenwood]] who is believed to be the origins of many Pilgrim Fathers to Massachusetts. [[John Wolfe]] a bookmaker, [[Ralph Emerson]] for smuggling books in in [[1580]] [[Quentin Smyth]] for smuggling in separatist pamphlets [[John Hooper]] was sentenced to death. Many others were spies and informers in the Clink. Including [[Sir Francis Walsingham]] the secretary to [[Elizabeth I]] and [[Sir Richard Topcliffe]] [[Father John Southworth]] was in the clink twice and was later made a saint by [[pope Paul VI]] his body is the only body of [[martyred priests]] to survive. [[John Rogers]] was imprisoned in [[1555]] And believed to be the first man to be martyred by [[Bloody Mary Tudor]] The [[Clink Prison]] has ties to the [[mayflower]] including [[John Lothrop]] who was released from the [[Clink Prison]] along with his congregation. Not all was pretty at the [[Clink Prison]] or had success stories. [[John Gerard]] was tortured at the tower. A full story of his account is preserved at [[Stonyhurst College]] in [[Lancastshire]] Various torture devices were used here including a [[catch pole]] [[chair torture]] [[scolds bridle]] which was first used in [[Scotland]] in [[1567]] and mostly used for women of the lower classes who had too much to say for themselves. [[Morning Star]] or [[Kettenmorgenstern]] were used at the prison which originated in [[Germany]] And [[the Scavengers Daughter]] was in rented by [[Sir William Skeffington]] [[Pain Forte et Dure]] was used to get prisoners to confess. [[Margaret Clitherow]] died in [[1856]] from this for refusing to tell on [[catholic]] priests. The last prisoner to be burned in [[England]] was [[Catherine Murphyfound]] [[Strappado]] was used to punish [[Nichole Machiavelli]] [[Statute of Acton Burnell]] was passed in [[1283]] which allowed debtors to the grown to be imprisoned. In 1352 to this was all debts. [[Charles Dickens]] found himself working at the [[Clink Prison]] when his parents were held for debt in the [[marshalsea prison]] in [[1820s]] Debtors often put in the [[Gibbet]] on public display. [[cromwell]] wa stage only commoner to ever rule England. His body was exhumed, gingered at [[tyburn]] and then beheaded and displayed outside [[westminster hall]] til 1685 [[Henry Broncker]] was imprisoned there and later known as the “Father of the Clink” The [[Clink Prison]] was partially burned in the [[riots of 1780]]