176 Notes
- CJ, vol. XXV, p. 752. Similar complaints were made about paving and scaven-
ging rates for Bethnal Green; see CJ, vol. XXVI, p. 149. - CJ, vol. XXV, p. 752.
- CJ, vol. XXV. p. 752.
- The Webbs' most complete examples of corrupt and inadequate parish govern-
ment do not come from the 1750s but the first decades of the nineteenth
centmy, into the 1830s. See Webb and Webb, Parish and County, pp. 76-103. - I agree with Joanna Innes, who describes the Webbs' conclusions as 'too
pessimistic;' See her 'Parliament and the Shaping of Eighteenth-Centmy Eng-
lish Social Policy', p. 73. - W. Albert, The 'IUmpike Road System in England 1663-1840 (Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 1972), pp. 43-9, 201-23. See also E. Pawson, 1hlnsport
and Ecqnomy: The 'IUmpike Roads of Eighteenth Century Britain (New York:
Academic Press, 19TI), pp. 341-~JO. - CJ, vol. XXVII, p. 305.
- CJ, vol. XXVII, p. 348.
- See my 'Night Watch', pp. 128-30.
- StMary Abbots, Kensington, VM, 21 Nov. 1794.
- The parish began officially allowing the hiring of substitute constables in 1796.
The full-time paid ~istant Constable' was first hired in 1816 at an annual
salary of £40. See StMary Abbots, Kensington, VM, 28 March 1796; 15 April
1816. For more on the Kensington Thmpike, see F.M. Gladstone and A. Barker,
Nolting Hill in Bygone Days (Anne Bengley, 1969), p. 54 and Kensington
Central Library, Local History Collection, E.J. Ffooks, 'Kensington Thrnpike
lhist', typescript of essay presented for the University of London Extension
Diploma, 1957.
In Chelsea, the Governors of Chelsea Hospital provided patrols on the road
to London and some watchmen for the parish. See Reports from Committees
of the House of Commons, vol. XIII. Finance Reports, XXIII to XXXVI, 1798-
1803 (1803), 34th Report, Appendix C.3, 'Royal Hospital at Chelsea:-Extracts
from the Minutes of the Board', p. 614. - The turnpike had been a source of considerable conflict in the parish between
' "the gentlemen of the vestry" ' and the '"townsmen"' for quite some time. It
is possible that Bone's refusal to take the charge was continuation of this
dispute. SeeR. Paley (ed.), Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing
Notebook of Henry Norris and the Hackney Petty Sessions Book (London Record
Society, 1991), p. ix. - The select vestry paid for some watchmen and patrols on the main roads out of
unappropriated funds. GLRO, P79/JN1/142, St John, Hackney, Select VM, 22
Oct. 1739, 1 Sept. 1740, 24 April, 1753, 25 Sept. 1762. - St John, Hackney, Minutes of Parish Meetings, 13 Aug. 1763.
59. St John, Hackney, Minutes of Parish Meetings, 22 Aug. 1763; TM, 26
March 1764. See GLRO, P79/JN1/142, StJohn, Hackney, Select VM, 17 Oct.
1763.
60. KG. Grytzell, County of London: Population Changes 1801-1901 (Lund, Swe-
den: C.W.K Gleerup, 1969), table 1:3 and Chapter II, Section 6; George,
London Life, pp. 329, 414.
61. T. Pennant, Some Account of London, 5th ed. (1813), pp. 74-5. See also
F. Sheppard, London 1808-1870: The Infernal Wen (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1971), p. 161.
62. DJ. Johnson, Southwark and the City (Oxford University Press, 1969), pp. 64-8,
332-3. See also the Rev. J. Entick, A New and Accurate History and Survey of