Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
work came to depend on the willingness of two men to take on the whole bur- den. Sir Richard Brocas, who was lord mayor in 1729 ...
the work, or a dedication to advancing a vision of moral and social order that deeply engaged them.^62 But there may have been s ...
kinds. Shops, taverns, coffee-houses, pleasure gardens fed an enlarging public life that led over time to a richer and more self ...
offenders that helped to make prosecution procedures more complicated. Statutory rewards, created in the 1690 s and in Anne’s re ...
As one would expect, Brocas’s Charge Book in 1729 – 30 shows a good deal of continuity of practice from the 1690 s ( Table 2. 2 ...
whole), he dealt with more than 230 accusations of assault. This is very different indeed from the evidence of Ashhurst’s work i ...
victim and the prosecution witnesses, bound them over in recognizances to en- sure their appearance in court, examined the accus ...
Brocas and other magistrates enquired into the evidence offered by prosecutors who brought charges on suspicion is abundantly cl ...
At any event, for whatever reason, so many aldermen had withdrawn from the work of criminal prosecution by the 1730 s that the b ...
could have been very little sense of continuity from one mayoral regime to an- other. With the creation of the rotation system i ...
lords mayor were at first included in the rotation in the Guildhall magistrates’ room. But they returned to a more independent a ...
It seems certain that the changing demands on magistrates in the metropolis by the 1720 s persuaded those who planned the Mansio ...
an audience; and, at the same time, as an opportunity to discover the de- fences that prisoners would put forward at their trial ...
The City did not adopt the stipendiary system. Its aldermen/magistrates continued in the more traditionally passive role with re ...
CHAPTER THREE Constables and Other Officers The City constables The forces charged with keeping order in the City of London cons ...
twenty-six wards was thus largely determined by the number of their precincts, and by the late seventeenth century that bore no ...
The imbalance in numbers of constables among the wards proved difficult to correct so long as the basis of service remained the ...
constables across the board in the eighteenth century, even in the face of an in- creased burden of work, so long as the basis o ...
suggestion that the governors of the City were looking for ways to enlarge their own authority and indirectly the authority of t ...
Significant changes in the law or orders from the Court of Aldermen were com- municated to the City constables in two ways: copi ...
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