170 Notes
Manor, Court Leet and Court Baron Proceedings; Walworth Manor, Court
Leet Book.- See, for example, Landau, Justices of the Peace, pp. 247-8 and Webb and Webb,
Parish and County, pp. 27-8. - Webb and Webb, Parish and County, pp. 27-9; Critchley, History of Police, pp.
6-7. - See, for example, St John Clerkenwell, Liberty of St John of Jerusalem, Peace
Officer's Book. For additional discussion of alternate titles for keepers of the
King's peace, see Webb and Webb, Parish and County, p. 27n. - Webb and Webb, Parish and County, pp. 18-19; Kent, The English VIllage
Constable, p. 305. - R.G. The Compleate Constable (1710), pp. 9-10.
- See, fm: example, Christchurch, Spitalfields, VM, 14 March 1806.
- See Kent, The English VIllage Constable, pp. 305-7.
- Critchley, History of Police, pp. 6-7.
- J. Ritson, The Office of Constable (1791), pp. 11, 18n. See also my 'St Mary-
lebone: Local Police Reform in London, 1755-1829,' The Historian, 51 (1989),
pp. 455-6. - J.J. Tobias, Crime and Police in England 1700-1900 (New York: St Martin's
Press, 1979), p. 30. - See my 'St. Marylebone,' p. 452.
- Tobias, Crime and Police, pp. 32-3.
- Webb and Webb, Manor and Borough, p. 214. See also Rude, Hanoverian
London, p. 127. - Scavengers were garbage collectors.
- Westminster Court of Burgesses, Minutes, 25 Aug. 1720. See typescript intro-
duction by Nicholas Webb and Alison Kenney of the Westminster City
Archives minutes of the Court of Burgesses for the origins, development, and
duties of the Court. For the numbers of the watch, see a printed copy of the
'Orders, Rules, and Ordinances' for the watch issued 13 Feb. 1719/20 at the
front of the Minutes volume covering 1726-30. - Webb and Webb, Manor and Borough, vol. I, pp. 214, 224. See also, for
example, Applebee's Week.(y loU1711Jl, 30 July 1720, p. 1811, which listed the
additions to the Westminster Bench and then 'these following, with most of
the abovenamed Gentlemen, are added to the Commission of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex ... .' - See, StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 26 Dec. 1728; Robert Shoemaker identifies John
Ellis, Esq., of Pall Mall, as both vestryman and justice for Piccadilly. See
Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment, pp. 326, note h and StJames, Picca-
dilly, VM, 24 Aug. 1719. - Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment, pp. 265-70.
- CJ, vol. XIX, p. 233. All dates have been left in Old Style, except I mark the
year as beginning on 1 January. - CJ, vol. XIX, p. 233.
- U, vol. XXI, pp. 303-4.
- All references to the 1720 Nightly Watch Bill, unless otherwise noted, come
from the draft of the Bill in the House of Lords Record Office. - See MS. petitions in the House of Lords Record Office. See also U, vol. XXI,
pp. 311, 313, 315, 316. - CJ, vol. XIX, pp. 233, 250, 255, 258, 276, 311, and 326.
- Quoted in Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment, p. 239.