Marshalsea

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  • Marshalsea: an infamous prison in England, located on the south bank of the River Thames in Southwark, now part of London. From at least the 14th century until it closed in 1842, it housed a wide variety of prisoners
  • City Marshalsea:name of a Dublin debtors' orison
  • marechaussee: a gendarmeforce performing military police and civil police duties
  • marchsalcy: a master of the horse in a medieval royal household the office and duties of a marshal