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.

Greenwood was imprisoned in The Clink, and Barrowe came from the country to visit him.

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.

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.

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.

In 1602 he was confined in The Clink, but kept in close touch with Bancroft.

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.

Having gained 500 converts to Catholicism between 1583 and 1586, he was arrested whilst walking with his mother near London Bridge, committed to The Clink and executed at Tyburn on 8 October 1586.

As an avid reducer of aid in his climibng, Clink was over bolted in 2004.

Stuart Clink Hood ( 17 December 1915 – 31 January 2011 ) was a Scottish novelist, translator and a former British television producer and Controller of BBC Television.

The song is played using three acoustic guitars and was recorded in a single session by producer Mike Clink.

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 ).

" Clink ", an essay describing his failed attempt to get sent to prison, appeared in the August 1932 number of Adelphi.

Henslowe married Woodward ’ s widow, Agnes, and from 1577 lived in Southwark, opposite the Clink prison.

Entrance to The Clink prison museum

* The Clink, a historic prison in Southwark, England

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.

The origins of the name " The Clink " are uncertain, but it is possibly onomatopoeic and derives from the sound of striking metal as the prison's doors were bolted, or the rattling of the chains the prisoners wore.

Classing clerics as tax collectors, they murdered them and released prisoners from the Clink before burning it down.

From the 12th century, brothels in London were located in a district known as the Liberty of the Clink.

I Mother Earth travelled to Los Angeles in 1992 to record its debut album with former Guns N ' Roses producer Mike Clink.

* Clink is the English name for the Turkish dessert Kazadibi

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.

* Mike Clink – drum engineer on " The Shortest Straw " and " Harvester of Sorrow "

The Clink Prison Museum is currently located on the original site in Clink Street, in the basement of a former warehouse.

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.

The band worked with producers Mike Clink ( Guns N ' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Heart ), Richie Zito ( Cheap Trick ), and Paul Ebersold ( 3 Doors Down ).

Eleven other places in London were named in the Acts ( The Minories, The Mint, Salisbury Court, Whitefriars, Fulwoods Rents, Mitre Court, Baldwins Gardens, The Savoy, The Clink, Deadmans Place, Montague Close, and Stepney ).

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

The notorious guard Sejanus was murdered in 31 on the orders of Tiberius.

For nearly twenty years he battled an amphetamine addiction ; during the 1960s he was a patient of the notorious Max Jacobson, known as " Dr. Feelgood ", who administered injections of " vitamins with enzymes " that were in fact laced with amphetamines.

The resulting sequence, " Jack Jawbreaker Fights Crime !," was a devastating satire of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's notorious exploitation by DC Comics over Superman.

The notorious Rusty n Edie's BBS, in Boardman, Ohio, was raided by the FBI in January 1993 for software piracy, and later sued by Playboy for copyright infringement in November 1997.

Edward Teach ( c. 1680 – 22 November 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

* Joseph Kagan, Baron Kagan, earlier ennobled by the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson's notorious Lavender List ( 1976 ), was convicted of fraud ( 1980 )

By the 1970s the area was notorious for street robberies and drug dealing.

Another notorious cannibal was mountain man Boone Helm, who was known as " The Kentucky Cannibal " for eating several of his fellow travelers, from 1850 until his eventual hanging in 1864.

Hearst was notorious for his practice of yellow journalism, and he was frowned on by readers of The New York Times and other newspapers which featured few or no comic strips.

The council abolished some of the most notorious abuses and introduced or recommended disciplinary reforms affecting the sale of indulgences, the morals of convents, the education of the clergy, the non-residence of bishops ( also bishops having plurality of benefices, which was fairly common ), and the careless fulmination of censures, and forbade dueling.

Among the notorious ones was the Tambov rebellion.

Possibly the most notorious such vehicle was the former Soviet TMM bridging truck that could carry and launch a 10 meter bridge that could be daisy-chained with other TMM bridges to cross larger obstacles.

Captain William Kidd was either one of the most notorious pirates in the history of the world or one of its most unjustly vilified and prosecuted privateers in an age typified by the rationalisation of empire.

One year later, " Captain " Culliford, a notorious pirate, stole Kidd's ship while he was ashore at Antigua in the West Indies.

The Limehouse area in London was notorious for its opium dens, many of which catered for Chinese sailors as well as English addicts.

Further problems were caused by a notorious hooligan element among the support, which was to plague the club throughout the decade.

One of the most notorious propaganda films is Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will ( 1935 ), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by Adolf Hitler.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Gambling, particularly on craps or horse races, was a common theme of Runyon's works, and he was a notorious gambler himself.