Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
plausible enough evidence to get him sent to the Poultry Compter.^136 The mar- shals continued into the eighteenth century to ar ...
like Charles Hitchen, who bought the office of under-marshal in 1712 for 700 pounds (with his wife’s inheritance) and used it to ...
that the City-wide authority of the office combined with increasing demands being made of the constables and other officers was ...
reforms of the 1830 s the City marshal was confined to purely ceremonial duties—leading the lord mayor’s procession, and helping ...
ward was liable for watch service, and, until watch rates were put on a more set- tled basis, for collecting money to hire subst ...
regular—and the opportunities to add to it by lawful and more shady ways sufficiently obvious—to attract men who were in a socia ...
servants may be acquainted with the same’.^160 Similar orders sent the beadles round with an abstract of the Vagrancy Act passed ...
more turbulent wards) can be found prosecuting nuisances, arresting and pros- ecuting prostitutes, and occasionally taking men a ...
time—as when John Rivett, the beadle of Billingsgate ward, was charged along with a constable in 1701 with having ‘connived att ...
CHAPTER FOUR Policing the Night Streets The problem of the night Constables were not regularly drawn into daytime surveillance. ...
may cause night-watch to be duly kept, for the arresting of persons suspect, and night- walkers (be they strangers or others) th ...
asked the secretary of state to order that the soldiers of the king’s guards stationed in the metropolis be kept off the streets ...
Whatever their role at the City’s gates, the principal task of the watch in 1660 and for long after continued to be the control ...
one made up of unpaid citizens, a point accepted in practice in legislation passed by the Common Council in 1705 , though it was ...
little authority.^15 The numbers of watchmen required in each ward had long been established by acts of the Common Council, and ...
‘established by custom’—in fact, by an act of 1621. Even though it had been true before the civil war that the watch had already ...
reconceptualization involved, the change of the watch from a force of house- holders taking their turns to guard their neighbour ...
serve, the eligible householders were asked to contribute to a watch fund that supported hired men. In Billingsgate, for example ...
The marshal’s investigation was but one aspect of an increasingly intense scrutiny of the watch by the City authorities in the l ...
paying extra to their beadle and watchmen in the winters of 1695 – 6 and 1697 – 8 , and which presumably involved a number of me ...
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