Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench St Thomas Square Millbank Prison opened in 1821

Millbank Prison opened in 1821

showing a royal procession with Queen Victoria's carriage

View of visitors arriving at the east end of the pavilion on Holborn Viaduct

hanging from a lamp-post as a punishment for slandering Bethnal Green

a lion from Senegal

Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench St Thomas Square Millbank Prison opened in 1821'Sir Matthew Hale, Kt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench', 1670. It was Hale's (1609 1676) opinion that The husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract, the wife hath given herself in kind unto the husband which she cannot retract. His statement was partly responsible for the fact that, until recently, spousal rape was not recognized as a crime in most common law