Shall the public houses built at the city charges [it appears that at that time Ludgate, Newgate, the Fleet, and the Compters were all put up to the highest bidder] be sold for private lucre?
The riot continued till three in the morning, "at which time they began to withdraw, but by the way were taken by the mayor and others, and sent to the Tower, Newgate and the Compters to the number of three hundred.
The compters of Ludgate, Giltspur Street, and the Borough were discontinued as debtors' prisons (as was Newgate also) on the opening of Whitecross prison for debtors in 1815.
Whether it would not be right to build the compters and public treasuries, where books and bank notes are kept, without wood, all arched and floored with brick or stone, having chests also and cabinets of iron?
Whether the general bank should not be in Dublin, and subordinate banks orcompters one in each province of Munster, Ulster, and Connaught?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
