noun
1.(in England) a court formerly held before the steward and the knight marshal of the royal household. It was abolished in 1849.
‘In 1377 Brembre, Walworth and Philpot came to the fore as the leaders of the capitalist party and re-united it in the face of Gaunt’s efforts to extend the authority of the marshalsea court into the city.’
‘He was born in a ″sponging house,″ his father being one of the bailiffs of the Marshalsea Court, and no more genteel or refined than his class, was apprenticed to a leather breeches maker at the age of thirteen.’
2.A former prison in Southwark, London, under the control of the knight marshal.
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