Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie

their offences. The extant copies of these lists in the State Papers show little evi- dence that he had consulted the judges or ...

occasionally in the minutes of the cabinet and lords justices’ meetings, and in the wording of pardon petitions. For the most pa ...

are, are fuller than most in Anne’s reign. In the first place, two of the offences were uncommon. William Bond’s was so distinct ...

had been denied clergy and her death sentence was initially confirmed by the cabinet. But someone evidently thought better of it ...

who had heard the case, and discussed the issues again at a second meeting before deciding to let the law take its course.^89 Th ...

of whom were condemned in 1690 and 1691 for stealing goods of over ten shillings in value, for which (unlike men) they were stil ...

ensure the case was taken seriously.^92 But over the whole range of pardon deci- sions that had to be made every year with respe ...

1706 ) managed to touch on the important issues in one brief paragraph. He had been convicted of a robbery and sentenced to deat ...

the most part crime in the capital was at a much lower level, pardon decisions resulted in 24 per cent of the men and women sent ...

offenders.^104 By the middle years of the 1690 s, before the Great Recoinage in 1697 reduced the number of prosecutions and exec ...

modest levels between 1702 and 1713 , when the war came to an end: in those twelve years, according to Lorrain, an average of fi ...

some because of the higher proportion of capital crimes among the offences charged, a situation created not only by the prosecut ...

Minute Book of the court which regularly in the 1690 s registered the finding of a true bill by the grand jury in one session an ...

sixty or seventy women by the middle years of the decade.^115 While a few of those women who could provide reasonable bail to su ...

Women continued to be pardoned on condition of transportation over the next few years, though not in large numbers. The overcrow ...

pardoned in London between 1704 and 1712 , from Middlesex as well as the City, were saved from the gallows on that condition.^12 ...

After some months of the new policy, in July 1713 , the deputy recorder submit- ted a plan to the cabinet to deal with the pardo ...

on that agenda, and in particular the issue that had been clear for two gener- ations at least: the weaknesses in the array of a ...

CHAPTER EIGHT Crime and the State, 1714 – 1750 8 CRIME AND THE STATE, 1714–1750 In 1701 the author of that gloomy treatise on th ...

officials. Such rumours turned out to be seriously exaggerated, but the episode speaks to the fear of what the peace was likely ...