Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
machinery, and marked a new beginning in policing practice.^11 T. A. Critchley, for example, acknowledged that there had been ch ...
With some important exceptions,^15 however, much of that work of revision has tended to accept a chronology that dates the onset ...
streets. This included a large number of issues: the control of crowds, not only those demonstrating against the government or i ...
We will begin our examination of the City’s policing forces in this chapter with the magistrates, the officials who were in char ...
seen in the attempts by the City authorities to strengthen surveillance, particu- larly at night, by improving the watch and by ...
peace-keeping officials in the City under stricter control and management and helped to make some aspects of policing more effec ...
stable and even a quasi-professional element within the official policing forces of the City. This was to be considerably enlarg ...
the structure of its policing networks, were the twenty-six wards. Each elected an alderman who was its nominal administrative l ...
other leading bankers of the early eighteenth century, Sir Francis Child and his son, Sir Robert.^29 A significant proportion of ...
see, some of the most important initiatives with respect to street policing were undertaken and carried through by leading non-a ...
more than a hundred houses.^33 The ward structure was also overlaid by the ec- clesiastical divisions of the parishes—ninety-sev ...
and more of the practical, day-to-day business, including many of the tasks that we would include within policing.^35 The ward l ...
associated with the supervision of Poor Law administration and other aspects of civic governance, as well as the management of t ...
character by his being attended at his sittings in the Guildhall by a clerk, and by four attorneys who took turns to serve for a ...
mid-February to mid-March he conducted at least some business on twenty- seven consecutive days. Ashhurst was known to be an act ...
however regularly they may have made themselves available over a period of years, they could not create a permanent and a public ...
Table 2 .1.Magisterial business conducted by Lord Mayor Ashhurst, January–June 1694 No. Accused of felony: Committed to Newgate ...
adhered to that advice. He committed several offenders to trial who had been charged merely on suspicion; one or two of them awa ...
Men and women with complaints or charges to make were able to find magis- trates easily enough in the 1690 s, when the business ...
rotas that named magistrates to be present at the opening of the court so that the business would not be delayed. Such a list ha ...
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