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- ↑ 'Prisons and Lockups', London Lives. https://www.londonlives.org/static/Prisons.jsp#toc4. Date accessed: 24 February 2017.
- ↑ 'A Survey of London, Written in the Year 1598, by John Stow', p. 345. Sutton Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-7509-4240-1
- ↑ 'A History of the Ancient Town Halls of Southwark' Guildable Manor articles 2007
- ↑ From: 'Bermondsey: Tooley Street', Old and New London: Volume 6 (1878), pp. 100–17. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45269. Date accessed: 1 February 2007.
- ↑ Old Towns of England, London in 1839: Part Six – Police and Prisons
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