Sessions House
Located on Old Bailey near Newgate, the Sessions House served as the meeting place for the Chamberlain of London’s court. The mayor and justices of the City also kept sessions in the building’s
Sessions Hall (Stow 1598, sig.
X6r). While the Sessions House was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, it was rebuilt in 1673 (The Proceedings of the Old Bailey,
History of The Old Bailey Courthouse). The building was reconstructed again in 1774 and in 1907 was expanded to its modern-day size (The Proceedings of the Old Bailey,
History of The Old Bailey Courthouse). The courthouse is located in the center of the Agas Map, though it is not labelled. It is also depicted on Rocque and Pine’s 1746 map (A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings), where it is labelled
Sessions H.The Sessions House is now called the Old Bailey, the Justice Hall, and the Central Criminal Court (The Proceedings of the Old Bailey,
History of The Old Bailey Courthouse).
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Hitchcock, Tim, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, Sharon Howard, and Jamie McLaughlin. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org. [We link to the direct page by date in the parenthetical citation.]This item is cited in the following documents:
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Rocque, John. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: Printed by John Rocque, 1746. Reprinted as The A to Z of Georgian London. Introduced by Ralph Hyde. London: London Topographical Society, 1982. [We cite by index label thus: Rocque 15Db.This item is cited in the following documents:
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MLA citation
Rothwell, Molly.
Sessions House.The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/SESS1.htm.
Chicago citation
Rothwell, Molly.
Sessions House.The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/SESS1.htm.
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Rothwell, M. 2022. Sessions House. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/SESS1.htm.
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Documents relating to the Old Bailey
The Sessions House was often referred to as
the Old Bailey.It is not to be confused with Old Bailey, the street on which the Sessions House was located.
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Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed.
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Rocque, John, and John Pine. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: John Pine and John Tinney, 1746.[See more information about this map.]
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A Correct Plan of the Cities of London & Westminster & Borough of Southwark, including the Bills of Mortality, with the Additional Buildings &c.
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Rocque, John. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: Printed by John Rocque, 1746. Reprinted as The A to Z of Georgian London. Introduced by Ralph Hyde. London: London Topographical Society, 1982. [We cite by index label thus: Rocque 15Db.
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Rocque, John, and John Pine. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark with Contiguous Buildings. London: John Pine and John Tinney, 1746.[See more information about this map.]
Locations
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Old Bailey
The Old Bailey ran along the outside of the London Wall near Newgate (Stow 1598, sig. U8v). It is labelled on the Agas map asOlde baily.
Old Bailey is mentioned in the following documents:
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Newgate
The gaol at Newgate, a western gate in the Roman Wall of London, was constructed in the twelfth century specifically to detainfellons and trespassors
awaiting trial by royal judges (Durston 470; O’Donnell 25; Stow 1598, sig. C8r). The gradual centralisation of the English criminal justice system meant that by the reign of Elizabeth I, Newgate had become London’s most populated gaol. In the early modern period, incarceration was rarely conceived of as a punishment in itself; rather, gaols like Newgate were more like holding cells, where inmates spent time until their trials or punishments were effected, or their debts were paid off.Newgate is mentioned in the following documents:
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Sessions Hall
The Sessions Hall was located inside the Sessions House. According to Stow, the mayor and sheriffs of London kept their sessions in this hall,both for the cittie of London and shire of Middlesex
(Stow 1598, sig. X6r).Sessions Hall is mentioned in the following documents:
Variant spellings
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Central Criminal Court
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Chamberlaines houſe and Court
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Chamberlains houſe and court
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Justice Hall
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Old Bailey
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Old Bailey Sessions House
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Sessions House
