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

Papers, Acts, and Reports [P.A.R.]— 22 vols. of miscellaneous printed documents

P.A.R., vol. 1 : Miscellaneous Acts, reports, and papers, 1606 – 1829

P.A.R., vol. 5 : Miscellaneous reports, 1682 – 1821

P.A.R., vol. 7 : Acts and ordinances of the aldermen and Common Council,

1606 – 1832

P.A.R., vol. 8 : Acts of the Common Council, 1526 – 1857

P.A.R., vol. 9 : Acts of the Common Council, 1581 – 1866

Printed Documents

P.D. 23. 5 Charge at wardmote inquest, 1679

P.D. 10. 192 The same, 1706 , 1721

P.D. 10. 48 Act of Common Council re constables, 1621

P.D. 10. 49 Acts of Common Council re constables, 1621 , 1630 , 1640 , 1655

P.D. 10. 59 Precept for the publication and distribution of clauses in acts of 1707 and

1713 with respect to servants, 1726

P.D. 10. 64 Proclamation re the duties of the marshal, 1676

P.D. 10. 71 Order/precept re the watch, 1674

P.D. 10. 73 Precept of the lord mayor re constables, 1661

P.D. 10. 81 Order/precept re the watch, 1681

P.D. 10. 159 Order/precept re the watch, 1728

P.D. 10. 193 Articles of the charge delivered by the lord mayor to the constables on

their being sworn into office, 8 January 1746

P.D. 10. 194 Rules and orders to be observed by constables, beadles, and watchmen,

pursuant to the Watch Act, 10 Geo. II, c. 22 ( 1737 )

Other records

Acts of Parliament and of the Common Council with respect to the watch and police,

1705 – 1839 : 1 box

Alchin MSS: A large collection of documents that were removed from their original lo-

cations by a nineteenth-century archivist and organized in an arbitrary way. His in-

adequate guide provides no more than a broad indication of the subject-matter of the

documents, arranged by box and number

Lamp accounts: Annual accounts by ward of the receipts of the tax for lighting the

streets and payments to the contractors, 1736 – 66

Minutes of the Court of the President and Governors for the Poor of London,

1703 – 5

Pardons: Pardons issued for condemned prisoners in Newgate in boxes dated

1667 – 1684 , 1685 – 1701 , 1702 – 56 , 1786‒1834. Warrants to include named offenders in

the next Old Bailey general pardon, dated 1719 , 1728 – 86. Pardons are also noted in

the sessions minute books (SM)

Postern gates watch accounts, 1716 – 77

Wardmote Presentments, 1680‒1853

Summaries of Ward Presentments, 1860 – 1844

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