Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
H O L B O R N CHEAPSIDE POULTRY F L E E T S T R E E T B I S H O P S G A T E S T R E E T CORNHILL LOMBARD ST. RoyalExchange The T ...
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Crime Problem Themes There was a common perception in London in the late seventeenth and early eig ...
support their regular production. Beginning in the 1670 s the business of the Old Bailey became the subject of a continuing seri ...
had been tried, revealing for the first time in a systematic way the numbers of men and women convicted and acquitted, and the r ...
condemned—an audience that seems certain to have consisted very largely of those in the middling ranks of metropolitan society: ...
seventeenth century had spilled far outside into suburban parishes and wards. The City had been largely destroyed in the Great F ...
roles in the administration of the criminal law. The lord mayor and other City magistrates, for example, were named to the gaol ...
population of about 120 , 000 in 1550 , the metropolis had grown to close to half a million by the end of the seventeenth centur ...
inhabitants of the larger metropolis.^15 In the eighteenth century, while the popu- lation of the larger metropolis continued to ...
with the rest of the metropolis, it was also a centre of increasingly conspicuous consumption, a massive consumer of food and st ...
were particularly numerous in the older, more stable parts of the City. The parishes outside the walls, larger in area and incre ...
numbers of young men and women could easily find themselves in serious diffi- culty if work dried up and they were adrift in par ...
misdemeanours common to county and borough quarter sessions elsewhere: assault, disturbances of the peace, fraud, and various fo ...
deal with thefts, robberies, and burglaries committed elsewhere when stolen goods had been brought to London for disposal. The c ...
appointed for them.^34 It was a matter of the simplest social snobbery that in- duced the aldermen of the City to fight so hard ...
reading of the commissions.^37 And they, too, occasionally tried cases. The recorder of the City was even more likely, as a lawy ...
commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery and continued its work on the bills exhibited against the prisoners in Newgat ...
kinds of cases tried at each—to make it possible for them to leave all property offences to the Old Bailey and to reserve for th ...
from Middlesex (Table 1.2).^41 By the second quarter of the eighteenth century the Old Bailey judges could expect to deal with 5 ...
Apart from the numbers of offenders, the pattern of prosecutions shown in Table 1.1suggests two other characteristics of urban c ...
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