Before the Bobbies. The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830

Notes

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES

BSP British Sessional Papen
CJ House of Commons Journals
GLRO Greater London Record Office
U House of Lords Journals
PCM Paving Commission Minutes
PRO Public Record Office
TM 'Ihlstee Minutes
VM Vestry Minutes
WCM Watch Committee Minutes
The location of parish and other local records can be found in the Bibliography.
Unless otheiWise indicated, place of publication is London.

1 INTRODUCITON

1. A Williams, The Police of Paris 1718-1789 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
   University Press, 1979), pp. 8-9.


2. Quoted in Sir Leon Radzinowicz, A History of the English Criminal Law from
   1750 (New York: Macmillan, 1948-86), vol. III, p. 2. Hereafter cited as Radzi-
   nowicz, Hutory.


3. Henry, Lord Brougham, Works (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1873),
   vol. XI, p. 324.


4. For a more extensive discussion of the historiography of London's police, see
   my 'The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1721J-1830,'
   (unpublished Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1991), pp. 3-14. Hereafter cited
   as my 'Night Watch.'


5. J.M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660--1800 (Princeton: Princeton
   University Press, 1986), p. 72; J. Styles, 'The Emergence of the Police -
   Explaining Police Reform in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century England',
   British Journal of Criminology, 27 (1987), p. 17, 18; D.J.V. Jones, 'The New
   Police, Crime and People in England and Wales, 1829-1888', 'lhmsactions of
   the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, 33 (1983), p. 158. See also S.H. Palmer,
   Police and Protest in England and Irelond (Cambridge: Cambridge University
   Press, 1988); R. Paley, ''~ Imperfect, Inadequate and Wretched System?":
   Policing London Before Peel', Criminol Justice History, X (1989), pp. 95-130;
   Douglas Hay and Francis Snyder (eds), Policing and Prosecution in Britain
   1750-1850 (Oxford: Oarendon Press, 1989); Lee Davison et al., (eds),
   Stilling the Grumbling Hive: The Response to Social and Economic Problems
   in England, 1689-1750 (New York: St Martin's Press, 1992); and R.B. Shoe-
   maker, Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Low in
   London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660-1725 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
   Press, 1991 ).

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