Notes 181- St George, Hanover Square, VM, 2 May 1774.
- 14 Geo. III c.90, s. 1927.
- CJ, vol. XXXIV, pp. 540, 766, 788, 801, 814.
- StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 18 June 1774.
- The Act is 14 Geo. III c.90. T.A. Critchley has argued that the committee
'did not, however, seek to correct its [the Statute of Winchester's) impropriety
or to replace it by something more attuned to the times. The only outcome of
the inquiry was an Act of 1774 designed to regulate the nightly watch of
Westminster, which, however, had little effect.' I would disagree-the Statute
of Winchester had already been superseded and the 1774 act was attuned to
the times. It is also clear from local records that the act was implemented.
See, for example, St Oement Danes, Minutes of the Governors of the
Nightly Watch, 19 Sept. and 10 Oct. 1774. 1b what extent it made an improve-
ment in crime prevention and detection is more difficult to tell. Qearly,
the vestries of Westminster, after years of dealing with the issue, thought it
would.
5 NEW MEANS TO OLD ENDS
- Beattie, Crime and the Courts, pp. 223, 582-3, and Chap. 5. See also Hay, 'War,
Dearth and Theft', pp. 117-60. - M. Madan, Tlwughts on Executive Justice (1785), pp. 4-5.
- See Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 199; Emsley, Crime and Society in
England, pp. 18-27. - Quoted in Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 137; See pp. 132-9; for long-term
trends, see T.R. Gurr, 'Historical 'frends in Violent Crime: A Critical Review of
the Evidence', Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research 3 (1981), pp.
295-353 and L. Stone, 'Interpersonal Violence in English Society, 1300-1980',
Past and Present 101 (1983), pp. 23-33. - Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 223.
- Beattie, Crime and the Courts, pp. 563-9.
- Beattie, Crime and the Courts, pp. 298-309 and 568-73. See also letters about
overcrowded jails in PRO, H.O. 42/1-3. - Wrigley and Schofield, Popull.ltion History, pp. 166-74, 265-9.
- Beattie, Crime and the Courts, pp. 215-16; see esp. fig. 5.4 and table 5.1.
- Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 208. See also Hay, 'War, Dearth and Theft',
pp. 128-35. - Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 216.
- For example, Radzinowicz, History, vol. III, pp. 89-137 and Palmer, Police and
Protest, pp. 85-116. - E.C. Black, The Association: British Extraparliamentary Political Organization
1769-1793 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963), pp. 132-4. - StJohn, Hackney, TM, 10 June 1780.
- Rude, The Crowd in History, pp. 58-9. See also Black, The Association, Chap.
IV; Radzinowicz, History, vol. III, Chap. 4; N. Rogers, 'The Gordon Riots
Revisited', Historical Papers (Canada), (1988), pp. 16-34. - Shoemaker, 'The London "Mob" in the Early Eighteenth Century', pp. 286-7.
See also Rude, The Crowd in History, pp. 59-64. For more on crowds and
their manipulation in London politics, see L. Sutherland, 'The City of
London in Eighteenth-Century Politics', in R. Pares and A.J.P. Th.ylor (eds),