The Bridewell Palace, beside the Fleet River, next to the Thames and just outside the city walls, was built for Thomas Wolsey, but he gave it to Henry VIII as a residence before it was finished. Henry enlarged it considerably, but then leased it to Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador (portrayed in Holbein’s portrait of that name). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1553, Edward VI gave it to the City of London as a prison for minor offences (the first ‘house of correction’) and ‘hospital’, that is a place for the care of pauper women and children from the City. The name became a generic term for a prison. A physician was appointed to care for the hospital inmates, making it sound more like the current meaning of hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Sudden Deaths<\/em> I have given it a mortuary or morgue, though I don’t know if it had one in real life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bridewell Palace, beside the Fleet River, next to the Thames and just outside the city walls, was built for Thomas Wolsey, but he gave it to Henry VIII as a residence before it was finished. Henry enlarged it considerably, but then leased it to Jean de Dinteville, the French ambassador (portrayed in Holbein’s portrait […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}