Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
that watchmen were more active and engaged in the second quarter of the cen- tury, though it is of course possible that apparent ...
confronting offenders and making arrests. Several of them helped an exciseman who was set upon by four men and stabbed with a bu ...
Whether these watchmen shared in a reward for the eventual conviction of this burglar in unknown. It seems likely they did, and ...
he pop upon, but this very Gentlewoman at the Bar, Madam Blewit, or Dickinson, or Bowler, or what you please to call her for she ...
It is possible then that some watchmen became trusted and reliable figures— more like college porters or hotel doormen than memb ...
turns to command the watch every evening and who conferred authority on the men they very often called ‘my watchmen’. In turn, w ...
man who ‘reflected upon the Lord Mayor’, questioned the constable’s author- ity, and, according to one of the watchmen, gave Wad ...
in the City and across the metropolis as a whole, the watch may well have been a more effective and reliable force in the settle ...
differences wrought in the first half of the eighteenth century were dramatic. In the City of London the changes can be seen in ...
increased as new buildings tended to encroach on the roadway and vehicles in- creased in size and number.^128 The fire razed the ...
fire and the new building codes. By the last third of the seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth commercial ...
would install and maintain. The City ofLondon clearly provided an attractive opportunity for such enterprises, since it containe ...
improving the lighting on City streets might have been seen as serving a wider social purpose and to have been a response to bro ...
came to be known as the Light Royal, a lamp that was made entirely of glass and cast no shadows.^142 Several promoters were thus ...
enough on the matter to oppose the bill vigorously as a threat to their rights and independence since it could limit their power ...
doors on ‘dark nights’ between Michaelmas and Lady Day. That was the estab- lished obligation. But the time during which the can ...
particularly as the problems that better lighting addressed only became more pressing with the ever greater crowding of the stre ...
manner of lighting the courts and alleys’ in their wards.^154 The same complaint was to be made later the same year, in the foll ...
out lanterns, Dee’s view again was that the City did not have such power, since the reason for the custom is the general conveni ...
inadequate, given the emerging demands for improved lighting and public safety. There were renewed complaints about the shadow c ...
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