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

(Jacob Rumans) #1
Notes 173


  1. Rude, London, pp. 10-12

  2. CJ, vol. XXIII, pp. ~21. For a fuller account of the passage of these two acts,
    see my 'Night Watch', pp. 67-75.

  3. St James, Piccadilly, VM, 2 June 1735 and St George, Hanover Square, VM, 2
    June 1735. In most parishes, the watchhouse keeper was also allowed to live in
    the watchhouse.

  4. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 2 June 1735 and StGeorge, Hanover Square, VM, 2
    June 1735. See also StGeorge, Hanover Square, VM, 4 Nov. 1735.

  5. St James, Piccadilly, VM, 2 June 1735.

  6. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 2 June 1735. See also StGeorge, Hanover Square,
    VM, 2 June 1735.

  7. See S. Webb and B. Webb, The History of Liquor Licensing (Hamden, Cf:
    Archon Books, 1903, reprint ed. 1963), Chap. 2. See also George, London Life,
    pp. 27-42.

  8. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 2 June 1735.

  9. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 2 June 1735. See 1 Geo. I c. 37.

  10. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 2 June 1735.

  11. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 26 Jan. 1736.

  12. 9 Geo. II c.98.

  13. 9 Geo. II c.98.

  14. 9 Geo. II c.98; StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 11 June 1735; StGeorge, Hanover
    Square, VM, 18 Feb., 22 April1736.

  15. The statutes named the dividing date as 30 March. See 8 Geo. II c. 8 and
    StGeorge, Hanover Square, VM, 2 June 1735.

  16. StGeorge, Hanover Square, VM, 2 June 1735. See also StJames, Piccadilly,
    VM, same date.

  17. St George, Hanover Square, VM, 2 June 1735.

  18. St George, Hanover Square, VM, 2 June 1735. Swallow Street was where
    Lower Regent Street is today but without Nash's curve.

  19. The Daily Gazetteer, no. 639, 13 July 1737.

  20. See 9 Geo. II c.8, the Act for St Martin-in-the-Fields.

  21. Ritson, Office of Constable, pp. 34-9.

  22. StGeorge, Hanover Square, VM, 2 June 1735.

  23. StGeorge, Hanover Square, VM, 13 Jan. 1736.

  24. StGeorge, Hanover Square, VM, 26 Jan. 1736.

  25. StGeorge, Hanover Square, VM, 4 Nov. 1735, 26 Jan. 1736,2 and 9 Feb. 1736,
    22 April1736, 21 May 1736, 2 June 1736.

  26. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 13 March 1736.

  27. StJames, Piccadilly, VM; 2, 11 and 20 June 1735; 14 Aug. 1735; 20 Sep. 1735;
    12 Dec. 1735; 26 and 31 Jan.1736; 7 Feb. 1736; 13 March 1736, 13 April1736, 2
    June 1736.

  28. StJames, Piccadilly, VM; 2, 10 and 11 June 1735; StGeorge, Hanover Square,
    VM; 2 and 10 June 1735.

  29. St George, Hanover Square, VM, 13 Jan. 1736.

  30. Shoemaker, Prosecutions and Punishments, pp. 27(}-.72.

  31. Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 218.


3 AN EXPANDING WATCH



  1. Quoted in Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 219.

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