Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
further precautions were to be taken. The Royal Exchange was given special at- tention before the main watch was assembled, for ...
complaining that the low pay they could offer prevented them from hiring the kinds of men they would have preferred.^40 Another ...
Burglaryes... committed... after the Breaking upp of the Watches... to the losse and Dammage of many of the Inhabitants’.^44 Com ...
every evening. None of this was said directly, but it was surely the problem that had bedevilled the raising of the watch over t ...
raised the problem of parish governance and gave rise to a struggle between vestries that were dominated by the wealthy inhabita ...
burglary and housebreaking, ‘of late years become more frequent than for- merly’, by establishing a statutory reward of forty po ...
watch every night of the year. There thus needed to be fewer of them. The 1705 act of Common Council accepted that as the basis ...
purpose and to deal with disputes about their location.^60 Their establishment went hand in hand with the expansion if not the c ...
1739 that broadened into a wider European conflict, when evidence of begging and vagrancy and other disorders in the streets and ...
It was the weakening sense of obligation to serve on or to pay for the watch that brought home to the Court of Aldermen and the ...
for an act of parliament to authorize the collection of‘a pound rate’ to support a sufficient number of watchmen to enable their ...
What emerged from that was the conviction that the problems surrounding the watch were by then too deep-seated to be solved simp ...
street lighting in the City was being debated at the same time.^80 A committee of the Common Council had been established in Oct ...
were members of the various committees involved. Several of them were very active indeed, most particularly two deputy aldermen: ...
emerging as crucial City authorities over a very long period by then, and who assumed a position of critical leadership in the s ...
Smart’s land tax evidence shows clearly enough the disparities across the City. He revealed that the proportion of houses in eac ...
value of ten pounds or more ranged between the 99. 7 per cent in Wallbrook and 31. 2 per cent in Cripplegate Without. Arranging ...
been useful—let alone possible—to create a larger, better paid, and centrally or- ganized force. Ward autonomy in the raising of ...
recruitment of better men and solved the problem the deputy alderman of Candlewick presented to the committee on the watch in 17 ...
the number of watchmen, but engage each for only half the week, and for half the pay. The established budget would not be exceed ...
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