Before the Bobbies. The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830
(^12) Before the Bobbies each parish would be rated to maintain the watch. Parish authorities were then to levy a rate on those ...
Westminster, 1720-39 13 as magistrates, centralized for the sake of better communication, more administrative efficiency, and in ...
14 Before the Bobbies and JPs prominently placed in their midst. Thus local authorities were able to initiate significant change ...
Westminster, 1720-39 15 This uniqueness has been retained by the City of London up to the present day; it maintains a police for ...
16 Before the Bobbies In 1727, Joseph Cotton, Deputy Steward of Westminster, paid an unan- nounced visit to St Margaret's watchh ...
Westminster, 1720-39^17 the Nightly Watch etc.'. They appointed a committee to work out the details and to contact other parishe ...
18 Before the Bobbies impossible for him to answer for everything that happened within the same. Witnesses pointed out that with ...
Westminster, 1720-39 19 All of the acts had similar provisions but while they gave parish vestries new authority to appoint the ...
20 Before the Bobbies Legislature will think it worthy of their Notice ... .'^74 The anxiety that motiv- ated this initial refor ...
Westminster, 1720-39 21 London Daily Post complained in 1735 that in spirit shops: ' ... Robbers drink themselves up to a proper ...
(^22) Before the Bobbies and Ely Rents were in an area of disputed jurisdiction and known for its brothels.^84 Spitalfields, on ...
Westminster, 1720-39 23 ward. Watchmen were paid an annual wage of £15 and beadles received £25 while the watchhouse keeper in S ...
24 Before the Bobbies shilling fine levied on offenders.^93 Vestries instructed their beadles to keep an eye out for con men who ...
Westminster, 1720-39 25 After attendance was taken and the men properly equipped, the watchmen then proceeded to take up their s ...
26 Before the Bobbies practice must have had a great deal of influence over the choice and discipline of constables. There was n ...
Westminster, 1720-39 27 information in the vestry minutes about the actual transgressions that led to these dismissals. On one o ...
28 Before the Bobbies watching for fires and thieves, and, it was presumed, preventing street crimes. Constables, in and yet not ...
3 An Expanding Watch, 1748-76 After 1748, when another post-war crime wave developed, publicly funded professional night watch f ...
30 Before the Bobbies this time ... '.^1 Even though post-war crime waves were expected, the level of anxiety, as expressed in p ...
An Expanding Watch, 1748-76 31 skilful at using large crowds to support his causes.^9 Additionally, disputes over wages and othe ...
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