street lighting (cont.):
increased expectations of 210 , 215 – 16 , 219
lamp improvements: inventors and
entrepreneurs 210 – 11 , 212 – 13
Light Royal 213 , 214
the making of the parliamentary Street
Lighting Act 1736219 – 22
and the Orphan’s Act ( 1694 ) 211
and public and private space 216 – 17 , 217 – 18 ,
221 – 3 , 224
related urban improvements 224
times of lighting 208 , 214 – 15 , 219 , 220 , 221 ,
225
streetmen 125 – 6
Summers, Robert 251 – 2
Sunderland, Lord 429
Surrey 18 , 31 , 189 , 446
Sussex 18 , 446
Sutton, Edward 416
Tatler 468
theatre and crime 56
thief-takers 85 – 6 , 227 – 56 , 389 , 395 , 396 , 400 ,
410 , 411 – 17
before 1689228 – 31 , 233 , 235
corrupt activities of 227 – 8 , 232 , 240 , 241 – 2 ,
400 , 404 – 5 , 405 – 6 , 409 , 413 – 15
as detectives-prosecutors 232 – 40 , 245 – 8 , 255 ,
379 – 81 , 382 , 395 , 404 , 411 – 14 , 415 , 417 ,
420 – 3
as intermediaries between thieves and victims
227 , 232 , 248 – 56 , 381 – 2
networks of 252 , 411 – 12
public attitude towards 173 , 228 , 234 , 248 ,
415 – 17
as quasi public officials 415 , 421 – 2
relations with constables 153 , 239 , 244 – 7 , 417 ,
423
relations with other officials 228 , 229 , 242 – 4
thief-taking, meanings of 227 – 8 , 232 , 422
thief-taking as an occupation 415 – 16
Thomson, Sir William 13 , 14 , 379 , 405 – 6 , 414 ,
419 , 460
career 424 – 7 , 433 – 4
attitudes towards crime 322 – 4 , 431 – 2 , 472
attitude towards pardons 426 , 429 , 431 , 442 – 3 ,
454
on City’s right to alter customary agreements
217 – 18 , 425 – 6
and transportation policy 428 , 429 – 30 , 431 ,
433 , 435 , 437 , 438 – 44 , 446 , 472
see alsopardons: the recorder, cabinet and
London pardons
Thornton, William 145
Three Tuns tavern 254
Tilson, Christopher 449
Timothy Nourse:Campania Felix 23
Tothill Bridewell 371
Tower Hamlets 238
Townshend, lord 189 , 384 , 388 , 389 , 391 , 393 ,
424 – 5 , 429 , 433 , 434 , 452 , 455
transportation, seepunishments
treasury 230 , 236 – 7 , 389 , 430
trials and trial procedure at the Old Bailey
259 – 64 , 265 , 270
arraignment 261 – 2
brevity and pace of trial 259 – 60 , 262 , 273
defence witnesses 262 , 319
evidence 273 , 408 , 410
lawyers at the Old Bailey: barristers: as
defence counsel 263 – 4 , 376 , 393 – 4 , 399 ,
as prosecuting counsel 112 , 264 , 273 , 376 ,
388 , 393 – 4 , 399 ; solicitors 112 , 319 , 329 ,
376 , 391 – 4 , 395 – 7 , 399 ; ‘Newgate
solicitors’ 319 , 396 , 398 , 399 ; City
solicitor 392
limitations on the rights of the accused 261 – 4 ,
275
petitions to be brought to trial 363 – 4
pleas of guilty 283 – 4 , 298 , 338 , 344
trial jury 16 , 260 – 77
deliberation 265 , 270 – 4
discretion 277 – 8 , 297
experience of office 269 – 70
independence of 276 – 7
leadership of foreman 274 – 5
relations with judges 275 – 7
repeated service 266 – 7
selection and social character 264 – 5 , 266 ,
267 – 70
‘Tyburn Ticket’ 147 , 185 , 231 , 330
Udall, Thomas 245
Uffenbach, Zacharias Conrad von 447
Unwin, Samuel 416
vagrancy 51 , 53 , 56 , 57 , 64 , 119 , 127 , 153 – 4 , 158 ,
160 , 166 , 188
Vauxhall Gardens 468
verdicts:
acquittals 284 – 6 , 339 , 342 , 344 , 435 – 6
convictions 339 , 343 – 4 , 356 , 436 , 448
gender and verdicts 284 – 5 , 287 , 339 , 342 – 4 ,
435 – 6
judicial manipulation of clergy to alter
punishment 302 – 4 , 341
‘partial verdicts’278, 286‒7, 304‒6, 339‒41,
342, 343‒4, 435
verdicts and value of thefts 305 , 345 – 6
Vernatty, Anthony 212 , 214 , 216
Vernon, James 242 , 243
Vincent, Sir Francis 337
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