Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
One of Rewse’s frequent collaborators, Robert Saker (or Segars) was an active thief-taker in his own right over much of this per ...
The forms of corrupt dealing that came to the attention of magistrates in the generation after the Revolution—though without at ...
length by Newton while they were in Newgate awaiting trial. Ivey said of Gibbons that his ‘business is to take up Clippers and C ...
force. Lovell, the recorder of London during the period we have been dealing with, seems to have had an especially close relatio ...
into the Prison of Newgate into the Roome of this Deponent accompanied by [Du]n S. Ledger Rouse Jenkins with severall others for ...
‘whereupon these Informants brought the said Edward Tunkes to the Con- stables house, and left him in the Constables Custody wit ...
to a private house where she offered to lye with him and told him she would show him the Postures and would faine have felt in h ...
the powers they, and they alone, were able to exercise. It was crucial, too, to the efforts of government departments like the P ...
committee examining the bill that became the burglary act in 1706 to which he gave evidence about his activities. The committee ...
a felony in this way was illegal. Many victims were clearly willing to pay for the return of their goods—an outcome the criminal ...
Threatening too many shoplifters and servants with the gallows was potentially damaging to their local standing and generally no ...
not, such measures made receiving apparently riskier than it had been—and that in turn made it riskier for thieves to deal with ...
themselves, they immediately went to Mr. Segars [i.e. Saker] in the Old Baily; where [they] staid a little while and talked of t ...
first-hand experience.^107 But we also know about Hitchen because he was an officer of the City, having purchased the place of u ...
Corbet paid when Hitchen in fact arranged to have his exchequer bills returned to him. A similar story was told by Richard Lawre ...
reinstated him in the following April, when he claimed to have a plan that would rid the City of most of its thieves.^117 It see ...
of Aldermen, and his anxiety to be given financial support for the scheme he claimed to have worked out to suppress property cri ...
Part II Prosecution and Punishment ...
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CHAPTER SIX The Old Bailey in the Late Seventeenth Century We have seen some of the ways in which alterations in the policing of ...
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