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

motivation on the part of the publisher for the appearance of a much expanded version of the Old Bailey trials. But the similari ...

propose that he may be inserted in the dead warrant but that att the same tyme there may be a Repreeve for him.. .’. It is an in ...

who had confessed to a magistrate that he had taken part with two others in a burglary in which goods of forty pounds were stole ...

the established procedure) as both recorder and, after 1729 , judge. They reveal a man who was capable of compassion and willing ...

manner with Violence and Arms and Terrifying His Majesty’s innocent Sub- jects’. Sells was not pardoned.^85 Those were London ca ...

the administration of capital punishment as his views about the role of trans- portation had played in the administration of the ...

convicted offender was that after 1718 the overwhelming condition on which the pardon was granted was transportation. The near c ...

The numbers convicted for offences in the City fell noticeably over the course of this period. Indeed, two-thirds of City proper ...

also because crowded gaols and longer calendars heightened concern about crime and encouraged juries to convict and judges and t ...

been ‘ill natured reflections in ye publick prints upon this delay’.^93 But irregular reporting and delayed executions remained ...

changes that had occurred since the Restoration in the policing of the City, in prosecution practices, and in punishment, it is ...

CHAPTER TEN Conclusion Numerous changes took place in the way the City of London dealt with crimes against property in the years ...

Still other changes emerged as a consequence of decisions being made by the aldermen who served as magistrates and of City house ...

opposition, and, on the other, the decades following the accession of the house of Hanover, in 1714 , in which whig politicians ...

of resources—the significant sums spent on rewards, for example, and the establishment of non-capital punishments. The principal ...

fundamental importance was the growth we have noted in the numbers and wealth of the middling class of the metropolis—the overse ...

Tradesmen and craftsmen, merchants and shopkeepers benefited as pro- ducers, purveyors, and consumers from the expanding availab ...

passing on their businesses to their descendants. The attractions and the re- wards of business were no doubt principally at wor ...

tasks so much more difficult. The simpler world in which the City had largely shut down at 10 p.m. had long been eroding, but it ...

property. And since such offences were particularly common in London, it it not surprising that it was London opinion and intere ...