This house was also called, while it was in the duke's possession, the Duke's Place; which place he exchanged with the said king Henry the ; and the king, in return, gave him the bishop of Norwich's house in St. Martin's-in-the-fields; on this exchange, which was enacted the of Henry the , it took the name of Southwark-palace, and a Mint was established here for the king's use; whence its present name.

Edward the , in the year of his reign, came from , and dined in this house, where he knighted John Yorke, of the sheriffs of London, and returned through the city to .

Mary I. gave the mansion to Nicholas Heth, archbishop of York, and to his successors for ever, to be their inn or lodging for their repair to London, as a recompense for York house, near , which king Henry, her father, had taken from cardinal Wolsey, and the see of York.

Archbishop Heth sold the premises, and the purchasers pulled it down, sold the lead, stone, iron, &c. and built on the site many small cottages, on which they imposed great rents,

to the increasing of beggars in that borough.

The Mint continued for many years an asylum for debtors and fraudulent persons, who took refuge here with their effects, and set their creditors at defiance, but this and similar privileges were entirely suppressed by parliament in the reign of George I.

The inhabitants of Whitefriars, Savoy, Salisbury-court, Ramalley, Mitre-court, Fullwood's Rents, Baldwin's-gardens, Montague-close, the , Clink, and Deadman's-place, assumed to themselves a privilege of protection from arrests for debt; against whom a severe, though just statute was made, and William III. chap. ,

whereby any person having monies owing from any in these pretended privileged places, may, upon a legal process taken out, require the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the head bailiff of the duchy, liberty, or the high sheriff of Surrey, or bailiff of

Southwark

, or their deputies, to take a

posse comitatis

, and arrest such persons, or take their goods upon execution or extent, and the sheriffs or officers neglecting, to forfeit to the plaintiff

100l.

, and every person opposing them, to forfeit

50l.

and to be sent to gaol till the next assize, and to suffer such imprisonment, and be set in the pillory, as the court shall think fit; and any person rescuing or aiding therein, forfeits to the plaintiff

500l.

and upon non-payment of the forfeitures, the person neglecting, to be transported to some of the plantations for

seven

years; and returning again within that time to be guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy, and persons harbouring those that have made such rescues, shall be transported as aforesaid, unless they pay the plaintiff the whole debt and costs.

The Mint is at present of the most filthy and inconvenient districts in the Borough.

is perhaps of the most dirty avenues in the

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