MRP: The Poultry counter

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The Poultry counter


Editorial history

14/12/11, CSG: Created page



Suggested links


See 19th March 1662/63, Letter from Humphrey Gyffard, Poultry Counter
See 25th March 1663, Letter from Humfry Gyffard to Sir GO, London
See April 1667, Letter from Humphry Gyffard to Sir GO



Humphrey Giffard, keeper of the Poultry Counter


Humphrey Giffard was a former merchant, who had been in the East Indies. By March 1662/63 he was the keeper of the Poultry Counter. This was one of two debtors prisons in the City of London, and was situated in Poultry. It was destroyed in the fire, as were Giffard’s home and possessions.

In 1670 Giffard published a pamplet A Second Accompt of what Progress Hath Been Hitherto Made with Such Other Particulars as are Conceived Necessary for the Advancement and Prefecting of a Publick Design for the Accommodation, Relief, and Benefit of the Prisoners of the Compter in the Poultry, Upon the Intending Re-building Thereof.[1]



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