Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
Such ideas represented considerable extensions of the street lighting currently provided. They were introduced not by chance but ...
The results of these initiatives, subsequently carried out under the direction of the City’s surveyor, George Dance, were report ...
on main streets, lesser streets, or in courts or alleys, hugely expanding what was regarded as public space.^169 The committee d ...
glass lamps were distributed throughout the City, ranging from a high of 744 in Farringdon Ward Without to 33 in Bassishaw. Thou ...
(among numberless other Advantages) reap this Fruit of having their Streets equally, and regularly, lighted in Winter and Summer ...
the lighting and watch statutes, a point worth attending to even if we were tempted to think that such an argument had only rhet ...
CHAPTER FIVE Detection and Prosecution: Thief-takers, 1690 – 1720 Early modern policing, like modern policing, centred broadly o ...
seventeenth century and perhaps much earlier, forces created by the merging of private energy and self-interest with public reso ...
The treatment that some members of that gang received in the pillory when they were finally exposed—treatment that resulted in o ...
assistant keepers, along with other gaolers, were given warrants that authorized them to arrest known thieves and other suspicio ...
evidence, too, of rewards being offered by victims of theft and robbery to induce private men to search for stolen goods. After ...
particularly the clerk of the warden, who by the 1670 s was prosecuting coiners at the Old Bailey and travelling the country to ...
the 1690 s further encouraged victims and others to bring charges, and sup- ported them in doing so. A second solicitor of the T ...
a result of people being willing to inform on their neighbours. Such information must have been crucial to the prosecution of so ...
they noted that the court intended ‘to consider further of his Cause, being an old Offender though a young man’.^29 In the event ...
even larger groups. St Leger’s partner for much of his thief-taking career—as in some part of his criminal career—was a man call ...
1693 they appeared together before Sir Salathiel Lovell, the recorder of Lon- don, along with a hatmaker, his wife, a second wom ...
presently—they survived a great deal of evidence collected in 1696 by Isaac Newton, the new warden of the Mint, that they had be ...
embroiderer, living in the early 1690 s in Bow Street, Bloomsbury, andJames Jenkins, a clockmaker in Exeter Court, off the Stran ...
Bodenham Rewse was even more active thanJenkins, and moved easily from prosecuting ‘loose’ women on behalf of the reform societi ...
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