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Henslowe married Woodward ’ s widow, Agnes, and from 1577 lived in Southwark, opposite the Clink prison.
It took its name from the notorious Clink prison which lay within the Liberty and gave rise to the slang expression " in the clink " ( ie in prison ).
Entrance to The Clink prison museum
The Clink was a notorious prison in Southwark, England which functioned from the 12th century until 1780 either deriving its name from, or bestowing it on, the local manor, the Clink Liberty ( see also the Liberty of the Clink ).
The Clink was possibly the oldest men's prison and probably the oldest women's prison in England.
By 1180 the land was owned outright by the Clink prison.
In 1745 a temporary prison was used, as the Clink was too decayed to use although, by 1776, the prison was again taking in debtors.
* The Clink, a historic prison in Southwark, England

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This prompted the construction of permanent playhouses outside the jurisdiction of London, in the liberties of Halliwell / Holywell in Shoreditch and later the Clink, and at Newington Butts near the established entertainment district of St. George's Fields in rural Surrey.
Just west of the Bridge was the ' Clink Liberty ' manor, which was never controlled by the City, technically held under the Bishopric of Winchester's nominal authority.
In 1599, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was erected on the Bankside in the Clink Liberty, though it burned down in 1613.
Southwark was also the location of several prisons, including those of the Crown or ' Prerogative Courts ', the Marshalsea and King's Bench prisons, that of the local manors courts e. g. Borough Compter, The Clink, and the Surrey county gaol originally housed at the ' White Lion Inn ' ( also called informally the ' Borough Gaol ') and eventually at Horsemonger Lane Gaol.
Newgate Prison was attacked and largely destroyed, as was The Clink.
Specialist and local collections are represented at the London Fire Brigade Museum, the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, The Clink, the Cuming Museum and the London Bridge Experience and London Tombs under London Bridge.
They recorded the album at Conway Recording Studios and The Record Plant with Mike Clink and Slash co-producing and Steven Thompson and Michael Barbiero mixing, all of whom had worked with Guns N ' Roses on their debut album Appetite for Destruction.
Greenwood was imprisoned in The Clink, and Barrowe came from the country to visit him.
From the 12th century, brothels in London were located in a district known as the Liberty of the Clink.
An informal reader poll conducted by The Seattle Times showed that " The Clink " was a popular suggestion.
In 1106, Henry I's reign, the latter became an Augustinian Priory: this was founded with the patronage of the Bishops of Winchester which relationship was re-inforced by the establishment of their London palace immediately neighbouring the Priory to the west in 1149 ; a remaining wall and rose window of the refectory of the Palace survives on nearby Clink Street.
The south end is near the Tate Modern, the Clink Prison Museum, the Globe Theatre, and the Financial Times and Ofcom buildings.
Bankside is the riverside of the former liberties of the Clink and Paris Garden.
In the Elizabethan period, because of its location outside the jurisdiction of the City of London, the area of the Clink and Paris Garden were outside of the City of London's authority and so became occupied by the bear baiting pits and playhouses, including the Rose, the Hope Theatre, the Swan and the Globe Theatre of which a replica was constructed in the late 1990s.
The main areas of the town are ( approximately clockwise from the north-west ): Innox Hill, Welshmill, Packsaddle, Fromefield, Stonebridge, Clink, Berkley Down, Easthill, Wallbridge, The Mount, Keyford and Lower Keyford, Marston Gate, The Butts, Critchill, Trinity, and Gould's Ground.
Associated with the palace was the Liberty of the Clink which also lay on the south bank of the River Thames, an area free from the jurisdiction of the City of London.
* Schumacher, Alice Clink, Hiram Percy Maxim, Father of Amateur Radio, Schmachers: Great Falls, MT, 1970.
* Schumacher, Alice Clink, Hiram Percy Maxim, Father of Amateur Radio, Great Falls, MT: Schumachers, 1970.
This prompted the construction of playhouses outside the jurisdiction of London, in the liberties of Halliwell / Holywell in Shoreditch and later the Clink, and at Newington Butts near the established entertainment district of St. George's Fields in rural Surrey.

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In a chapter-long essay reprinted in In Search of Wonder, entitled " Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt ", Knight famously remarked that van Vogt " is no giant ; he is a pygmy who has learned to operate an overgrown typewriter.
The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
In May 1968 he completed an essay, " Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom ", where the anti-ballistic missile defense is described as a major threat of world nuclear war.
Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.
Michael Parenti, in his 1996 essay which examines the role of progressive media in the use of the term, " The JFK Assassination II: Conspiracy Phobia On The Left ", states,
The first of the three laws, previously termed Clarke's Law, was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the essay " Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination ", in Profiles of the Future ( 1962 ).
Complete copies have laid in the three page essay " The Price of Poetry ", on Smith's verse, by David Warren Ryder, which was printed to accompany the book.
Using this essay as his guideline, Howard began plotting " The Tower of the Elephant ", a new Conan story that would be the first to truly integrate his new conception of the Hyborian world.
In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.
Michael Mehaffy wrote an introductory essay on Christopher Alexander's built work in the online publication " Katarxis 3 ", which includes a gallery of Alexander's major built projects to date ( September 2004 ).
In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", George Orwell observes that political language serves to distort and obfuscate reality.
In the 2nd century, Lucian devoted a witty essay to the career of a charlatan, " Alexander the false prophet ", trained by " one of those who advertise enchantments, miraculous incantations, charms for your love-affairs, visitations for your enemies, disclosures of buried treasure, and successions to estates ",< ref >
In the same essay he also said that the " logic of the system " puts developers into " dysfunctional roles ", with bad code the result.
In " The Philosophy of Composition ", an essay in which Poe describes his method in writing " The Raven ", he claims to have strictly followed this method.
*" Our Biotech Future ", essay by Freeman Dyson, July 19, 2007
He brought out, in the Annals of Oriental Literature ( London, 1820 ), an essay entitled, " Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages ", in which he extended to all parts of the grammar what he had done in his first book for the verb alone.
Blair hated the school and many years later wrote an essay " Such, Such Were the Joys ", published posthumously, based on his time there.
" Rodden refers to the essay " Why I Write ", in which Orwell refers to the Spanish Civil War as being his " watershed political experience ", saying " The Spanish War and other events in 1936 – 37, turned the scale.
Orwell may have been the first to use the term cold war, in his essay, " You and the Atom Bomb ", published in Tribune, 19 October 1945.
Years later, Blair mordantly recalled his prep school in the essay " Such, Such Were the Joys ", claiming among other things that he " was made to study like a dog " to earn a scholarship, which he alleged was solely to enhance the school's prestige with parents.
In his 1925 essay " A Defence of Common Sense ", he argued against idealism and scepticism toward the external world on the grounds that they could not give reasons to accept their metaphysical premises that were more plausible than the reasons we have to accept the common sense claims about our knowledge of the world that sceptics and idealists must deny.

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