Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
A broadly similar pattern of election occurred in the even larger and more turbulent ward of Farringdon Without that sprawled al ...
substitutes between the meeting of the wardmote in December and the swear- ing in of constables on 8 January. No record exists o ...
as constable who wanted to pay for a deputy to take the oath of office along with his replacement.^86 This did not burden the el ...
simply refused to serve after being elected were ordered to do so by the Court of Aldermen under threat of indictment at the ses ...
hold that deputy aldermen and ward common councilmen were acquiring in the early eighteenth century on the management of local p ...
This record is almost certainly not complete in the 1690 s. The aldermen re- peated their order often enough that a deputy only ...
Cripplegate Within. It seems reasonable to think that all these men were willing and available to be deputy constables because t ...
offenders and more traffic on the streets. At the same time, and for the same rea- sons, the expectations held of them by the al ...
century they left the approval process in the hands of the deputy aldermen and common councilmen of the wards. What is perhaps m ...
continued to increase in the second half of the century; Patrick Colquhoun esti- mated that they made up ‘nearly two-thirds’ of ...
constabulary that is evident by the second quarter of the century. The fact that four out of ten constables were hired men by 17 ...
In addition, as was happening in the 1690 s—though now to an even greater extent—it was common for beadles to take on the additi ...
Book for 1728 – 33 —the only surviving account of the lord mayor’s work as a magistrate between 1705 and the mid- 1750 s. This l ...
men look to have been deliberately active, to have sought engagement in the business of the office, or at least not to have shun ...
also pointed towards a solution, when he was urged in 1719 by Charles Delafaye, an under-secretary of state, to deal with the nu ...
to police the sessions of gaol delivery for the first time—whether it was to con- trol the prisoners or the spectators who crowd ...
for drunken revelry, and too little sombre reflection on the wages of sin.^121 Whether the crowds were becoming more difficult t ...
By the last decades of the century, when the City’s resources were flowing ever more freely into policing, large numbers of ward ...
Corporation of an officer who could act as a co-ordinator. This was the marshal, whose changing role in the policing of the City ...
The marshals’ authority and duties, as set out by the Court of Aldermen in 1626 , were largely policing in nature.^131 Their cen ...
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