SOUTHWARK, a town of Surrey, part of which now belongs to the city of London, and the whole is reckoned a suburb thereto, though it sends two members to parliament on its own account. The principal street runs from London-bridge to St. George's church; besides which there are three others, and two famous hospitals, namely, St. Thomas's and Guy's, which are seated in that part called the Borough. There are also two prisons for debt, the King's-Bench and the Marshalsea; and one for criminals, called the New Gaol. The famous bridge which joins Southwark to London is now greatly altered, the houses being taken down, which rendered the passage over it very incommodious.