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and N. Rogers, 'Popular Protest in Early Hanoverian London', Past
and Present 79 (1978), pp. 71}.-100. See also Gilmour, Riots, Risings, and
Revolution, Chap. 16.- Pari. Hist., vol. XXI, cols. 1317, 1319. For more on the reactions to the Gordon
riots, see my 'Night Watch', pp. 237-42. - T. Hayter, The Anny and the Crowd in Mid-Georgilln England (Totowa, NJ:
Rowman and Littlefield, 1978); JA. Houlding, Fit for Service: The 1Taining of
the British Anny, 1715-1795 (Oxford: Oarendon Press, 1981), esp. pp. 61}.-74. - See my 'Night Watch', pp. 238-42.
- Lord Shelburne said the Westminster bench was 'filled by men, base to the last
degree, and capable of every mean act, derogating and opposite to the justice
of the laws .. .'. Pari. Hist., vol. XXI, cols. 592, 68a-81. - See E. Royle and J. Walvin, English Radicals and Reformers 1760-1848
(Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1982); see also Christie, Wilkes, Ujlvill, and
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- Brewer, 'The Wilkites and the Law', p. 142.
- Brewer, 'The Wilkites and the Law', p. 137.
- J. Torrance, 'Social Class and Bureaucratic Innovation: The Commissioners for
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Special Purposes (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1922, reprt. 1963), p. 431. - W. Hume, Bentham and Bureaucracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1981),pp.134-7, 140;seealso G. Himmelfarb, TheldeaofPoverty: England in the
Early Industria/Age (New York: Vintage Books, 1983), pp. 78-83. - W. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, scene 3, lines 35-36 in The
Complete Worla, ed. A. Harbage {Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1969). - Daily Univenal Register, 8 Jan. 1785, p. 1. Emphasis original.
- Liberty of the Rolls, Minutes of Inhabitants' Meetings, 13 Dec. 1785.
- St Marylebone, VM, 3 Nov. 1772, 9 Jan. 1773; WCM, 7 Jan. 1775 and my
'Night Watch', pp. 252-3. - Rules, Orden, and Regulations for the Better Management of the Nightly Watch,
and Beadles, in the Parish of StJames, Westminster (1796); StJames, Piccadilly,
VM, 11 Feb., 2 June 1796. The vestry paid ldeson a £50 gratuity for efforts on
behalf of an improved night watch. See StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 9 June 1796.
Ideson played a key role in development and passage of the 1774 Westminster
Night Watch Act. See Chap. 4 above. For additional examples, see my 'Night
Watch', p. 254. - St Leonard, Shoreditch, Four Rates TM, 2 Dec. 1790.