Notes 177
London, Westminster, Southwark, and P!IJces Adjacent (Edward and Charles
Dilly, 1766), vol. IV, pp. 374, 385-7.
- Johnson, Southwark, pp. 43, 140-45. Southwark sent its own MPs to the House
of Commons and was thus not included in the City in regard to parliamentary
elections. See Sir L. Namier and J. ;Brooke, The History of Parliament: The
House of Commons 1754-1790 (Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964), vol. I,
pp. 387-8.
- Johnson, Southwark, pp. 25lHi1.
- Quoted in Johnson, Southwark, p. 242.
- For the system of wardmote, see Rude, Hanoverian London, p. 124, and Webb
and Webb, Manor and Borough, vol. II, pp. 581-6.
- CJ, vol. XXX, p. 454. It is possible that these local worthies in Southwark
were inspired by the Westminster Paving Commission, which had taken respons-
ibility for paving of the streets in the previous year. This received significant
attention in the London press in the summer and autumn of 1765. See, for
example, The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 4 July 1765, letter to the printer
signed 'Publicus'; 9 Sept. 1765, letter to the printer signed 'L.M.' and 6 Feb.
1766, letter to the printer signed 'Moderator'. See also Rude, Hanoverian
London, pp.l36-7.
- CJ, vol. XXX, pp. 454, 466, 611.
- CJ, vol. XXX, pp. 743, 798, 820.
- The City officers were the Bailiff of Southwark (a City official), the Justice of
the Bridge Yard, and the comptroller of the Bridge Yard.
- The parishes of the West End, especially St George, Hanover Square, and
St Marylebone, were particularly fond of packing in titles and Members
of Parliament. See, for example, St George, Hanover Square, VM, 1 March
- Webb and Webb, Parish and County, pp. 11~15; Walworth Manor, Court Leet
Proceedings, 1747-1788; Johnson, Southwark, pp. 120, 174, 303.
- Another example is the five East End parishes that obtained one Act to
establish a night watch in each in 1756.
- See 4 Geo. III c. 54. It is interesting to note that the watchmen employed by
this trust were given powers of arrest but they then had to take
anyone apprehended 'as soon as conveniently may be into the Custody of
a Constable or other Peace Officer ... .' The Act then explicitly stated that
it was the constable's duty to see that the prisoner was taken before a magis-
trate.
- CJ, vol. XXX, pp. 540,590, 700.
- CJ, vol. XXXVI, pp. 59, 284, 455.
- A motion to apply for a watch act was voted down unanimously in January
1751; in 1764, the vote was unanimously for a bill. St Oement Danes, VM, 15
Jan. 1750/51, 11 Nov. 1764.
- For a more extended account of St Marylebone's watch system, see my
'St Marylebone', pp. 446-66.
- CJ, vol. XXXIII, pp. 135, 152, 156, 282, 292, 358; vol. XXXIv, pp. 410, 435-6,
548, 615.
- Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment, pp. 307-10.
- See 14 March 1766.
- Hart, 'The Reform of the Borough Police', pp. 414-15.
- CJ, col. XXXV, p. 544.
- See, for example, 9 Geo. III c. 89, which created a turnpike from Blackfriars
Bridge to Newington Butts. See Pawson, Transport and Economy, p. 354.
