Bridewell sty

…City Hall, and perhaps laying siege to the Magistrates Courts and the offices of Handjob Luncheon, and the Bridewell sty, together with certain other of the institutions which oppressed the ragged-trousered misanthropists of her natural constituency, before finally crossing the Avon and parading the charivari in Southville before the apartments where the Mayor dwelt with his wife who was the subject of their cruelty. The tiger or catamite advocated a…

…this means temporarily attenuated, the mob took its way down Nelson Street, where it laid siege to the Bridewell sty, and the yobs forming its Praetorian Guard assailed with the foulest imprecations the bacon sizzling within.