Fifty years ago . LA W AND JUSTICE 239 tlie express request of the inhabitants, and these werestill being constituted in some of the large towns. Thenin London there were local Courts with a peculiar juris-diction, such as the City Courts, which would fill achapter by themselves, and of which it is enough to. MAESHALSEA—THE COUBTYAliD name the Lord Mayors Court, the Sheriffs Courts ofPoultry Compter and Giltspur Street Compter, bothafterwards merged into the City of London Court. InGreat Scotland Yard there was the Palace Court, withthe Knight Marshal for judge, which anciently had 240 FIFTY Y
Fifty years ago . LA W AND JUSTICE 239 tlie express request of the inhabitants, and these werestill being constituted in some of the large towns. Thenin London there were local Courts with a peculiar juris-diction, such as the City Courts, which would fill achapter by themselves, and of which it is enough to. MAESHALSEA—THE COUBTYAliD name the Lord Mayors Court, the Sheriffs Courts ofPoultry Compter and Giltspur Street Compter, bothafterwards merged into the City of London Court. InGreat Scotland Yard there was the Palace Court, withthe Knight Marshal for judge, which anciently had 240 FIFTY YEARS AGO exclusive jurisdiction in matters connected with theEoyal Household, but now was a minor court ofrecord for actions for debt within Westminster andtwelve miles round. The Court had its own prison inHigh Street, Southwark—the Marshalsea of LittleDorrit, not the old historic Marshalsea, which wasdemolished at the beginning of the century—that stoodfarther north, occupying the site of No. 119 High Street—but a new Marshalsea, built in 1811 on the site of theold White Lyon, once a hostelry, but since the end of thesixteenth century itself a prison. The Palace Courtcame to a sudden end in 1849, owing to JacobOmnium being sued in it. Thackeray tells the storyin Jacob Homniums Hoss : — Por
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