Wade, Nicholas 205
Waker, Francis 404 , 405
Wales, Tim 227
Waller, John 129
Walpole, Sir Robert 117 , 424 – 5 , 429 , 433 , 434
Waltham ‘Blacks’ 386
War and crime, seecrime: economic circum-
stances, war, demobilization
Ward, Ned:
The London Spy 51
wards, seeLondon, City of, constitution and
governance
warehouses, theft from, seecriminal offences
watch, seenight watch
Welch, Saunders 120 , 121 , 124 , 132 , 421
West Indies 295
Westminster 7 – 8 , 53 , 84 , 189 , 191 , 192 , 198 , 223 ,
236 , 407 , 409 , 418
crime in 13 , 17 , 27
governance of 184 , 189 – 92
magistrates 113 , 189 , 330 – 1 , 390 – 1
magistrates and central government 390 – 1 ,
407 – 8
sessions of the peace 12 , 15 , 27
streets regarded as highways 430 – 1
watch 183 – 5 , 189 – 92 , 390
Westminster Police Bill ( 1785 ) 78
whipping, seepunishmentsWhitaker, William 393
Whitebread, Nathaniel 245
Whitwood, John 230 , 233
Wild, Jonathan 227 , 230 , 232 , 241 , 252 , 255 – 6 ,
372 , 379 , 380 – 2 , 389 , 415
Wiley, Henry 220
Wilkes, John 247
William III, king 46 , 98 , 346 – 50 , 356
William and Mary 98 , 123
Williamson, Joseph 229 , 231
Winstanley, Gerrard:
on capital punishment 281
Winterbottom, Thomas 193 , 222
women and crime 19 , 20 , 28 , 37 , 40 , 53 , 56 ,
63 – 72 , 336 – 7 , 338
women and punishment 296 – 7 , 298 – 9 , 306 , 309 ,
343 – 4 , 353 – 5 , 356 – 7 , 363 , 365 , 367 – 8 , 444 ,
458
Wood Street compter 48 – 9 , 95 , 107 , 160 , 186
Woodcock, John 245
workhouses 310 , 311 , 331 – 2 , 367
Bishopsgate Street Workhouse 29 – 30 , 57 , 126 ,
331
Wrightson, Keith 122
Wyndam, Edward 212
youth and crime (the ‘Black Guard’) 29 , 30 , 32 ,
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