Wysto appears from time to time to have given the Court trouble, his offence on this particular occasion being that he had ordered his apprentice to let a man blood in the Compter contrary to the order of the Aldermen.
At this Court was one wyddowe Bryers comitted to the Compter for practising Surgery contrary to the Statutꝭ of this Realme.
Percivall Jackson was again committed to the Compter for his “severall contemptꝭ.
This daye it is ordered that John Udall shalbe committed to theCompter for his contempt.
It is ordered that John Mullines shalbe comitted to the Compter for his disobedience in not payeinge his debte to this house.
This daie John Anslow was comitted to the Compter for defraudinge of Willm̃ ffoster of his patient And is to pay ffoster for his paynes in that cure.
This daie William Lacye is Comitted to the Compter for his contemptious behaviour towardes the Maisters of the Companye and for workinge in the trade of barberie beinge noe freeman.
This daie Edward Downes was comitted to theCompter for calleinge villayne before the maisters of the Companye.
Alsoe it is ordered that for his the said Thomas Bowdens evill practise in Surgerye he shalbe Comitted to the Compter in Wood Streete.
This daye it is ordered that Willm̄ Wrighte shalbe committed to the Compter for abuseinge the late M{rs} of this Company.
When I was in theCompter I happened to see a young man[23] whom I knew, with a fetter on.
Being brought from the Compter to Newgate, Sarah happened to see a room in which debtors were confined.
Garnish was demanded at every step, and the Wood Street Compter was hung with the story of the prodigal son.
There were two compters in London--the compter in Wood Street, under the control of one of the sheriffs, and the compter in the Poultry, under the superintendence of the other.
The Poultry Compter has a special historical interest, from the fact of its being connected with the early struggles of our philanthropists against the slave-trade.
This compter was burnt down in the Great Fire, but was rebuilt in 1670.
It was in this Compter that Boyse, a true type of the Grub Street poet of Dr.
While in the Compter Rookwood incautiously revealed his own identity, and was lost.
The mob, growing riotous, attacked theCompter and released all prisoners confined therein for "hurting the strangers"; thence they went to Newgate and set free Studley and Betts.
But they fell into a trap, and were arrested at the tavern; thence they were carried to the Compter and committed to Newgate.
A man was committed to the Compter from the Mansion-house, upon a charge of stealing from his employers a quantity of tea, entrusted to him for delivery.
His answer to the allegations made against him was unsatisfactory; and in the Compter he was imprisoned in the same ward in which Gould was suffered to remain.
Precisely as the clock of Saint Sepulchre's church struck ten, the doors of the Compter and Newgate opened simultaneously, and with a similar object.
From the Compterissued Richard Markham:--the portal of Newgate gave freedom to Eliza Sydney.
Richard Markham had determined to lose no time in revealing to Count Alteroni those adventures which had rendered him an inmate of the Giltspur Street Compter for two years.
Mr. Rogers, was conducted to the Compter in Southwark, there to remain till the next day at nine o'clock, to see whether they would recant.
Upon Friday before Palm Sunday, he was committed to the Compter in Bread-street, and afterward examined and condemned by the bloody bishop.
Wood Street Compter was not a pleasant abode, for Howard says the place swarmed with bugs.
The Poultry Compter was in the hands of a keeper who had bought the place for life, and was so crowded that some of the prisoners had to sleep on shelves over the others, and neither straw nor bedding was allowed them.
The Borough Compter is surely the most loathsome, fetid, narrow place that was ever used for a prison.
They should be sent to the Borough Compter or the Clink.
I almost think that if I received a note for admission in the compter to-morrow morning, that I should have magnanimity of soul sufficient for a Seneca's wife.
Then a third warrant came down; nothing was left but the personal recognizances, and this third warrant removed that, so that Carlile had everything he stood out for at last, and left the Compter in triumph.
This is a necessary caution, as no bargain would induce me to deal with a man who had been sent to theCompter for theft.
A very few weeks after Carlile's liberation from the Compter he was again under sentence.
He therefore wrote a note to the Governor of the compter asking that his old room be made ready for him, the one he had occupied so long; and once more he took up his abode in a gaol.
However, he was not required to fill out his term, and after being in the compter four months he was released quietly, the authorities themselves becoming ashamed of the affair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
