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37. St James, Piccadilly, VM, 8 March 1803.


38. St Anne, Soho, VM, 7 Sept. 1791.


39. St Andrew, Holbom, and St George-in-the-Martyr, WCM, 2 Feb. 1807, 3
    March 1807, 30 March 1807.


40. St Giles-in-the-Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, VM, 16 May 1807.


41. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 11 Oct. 1796, 20 Sept. 1800.
    42: Guildhall Library, Beadles' verses, from W. Gosling, St Anne, Soho, 1819.


42. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 11 Oct. 1796.


43. The streets named were Pall Mall, St James's Street, Haymarket, Princes
    Street, St Alban's, and Marylebone Street.


44. St James, Piccadilly, VM, 9 May, 26 Sept. 1800.


45. StMarylebone, VM, 8Dec.1787,17 Jan.1795; see also my 'Night Watch,' p. 258.


46. St Marylebone, WCM, 1 Nov. 1783.


47. Hackney, Thmpike TM, 11 Dec. 1793. For another example of a similar rule,
    see Rules, Orders, and Regulations for the Better Management of the Nightly
    Watch, and Beadles, in the Parish of StJames, Westminster, p. 27.


48. St Andrew, Holbom, and St George-the-Martyr, WCM, 30 March 1807; see
    also my 'Night Watch', p. 261.


49. St Marylebone, WCM, 8 Dec. 1781.


50. Clink Uberty, PCM, 27 Sept. 1786. For additional examples, see my 'Night
    Watch', pp. 262-3.


51. Ritson, Office of Constable, pp. iii-iv, 4.


52. Christchurch, Spitalfields, VM, 14 March 1806, 14 March 1807.


53. StJohn, aerkenwell, Peace Officers Book, Uberty of StJohn of Jerusalem, 19
    April 1789. The records do not indicate how many gentlemen took advantage
    of the vestry's offer.


54. Webb and Webb, Parish and County, p. 69. It should be noted that their
    quotation referring to deputy constables is from 1700.


55. 11 April1785, p. 2.


56. Radzinowicz, History, vol. II, p. 278.


57. St Marylebone, VM, 3 Nov. 1772, 9 Jan. 1773, 22 April1797.


58. Walworth Manor, Court Leet Proceedings, 8 Nov. 1773.


59. Radzinowicz, History, vol. II, p. 278.


60. Philips, 'Law Enforcement in England, 178(}.-1830', p. 160.


61. See, for example, Radzinowicz, History, vol. II, p. 279. See also vol. III, pp.
    81-2.


62. See St Marylebone, WCM, 7 Jan. 1775 and St James, Piccadilly, Rules and
    Regulations, 1796.


63. See, for example, StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 20 Nov. 1799, 27 Jan. 1800; and St
    Marylebone, WCM, 8 Dec. 1781.


64. St Marylebone, WCM, 27 Feb. 1790, 6 March 1790.


65. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 12 June 1790,26 Jan. 1793; St Marylebone, WCM, 14
    April1792, 9 June 1792, 6 Oct. 1792, 27 Oct. 1792, 23 Feb. 1793.


66. St Marylebone, WCM, 8 May 1784, 27 Jan. 1776, 11 April1778; VM, 22 April


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68. 35 Geo. III c. 73 s. 31. By 1823, the Vestry was paying 13 annuities to retired
    watch employees. See St Marylebone, VM, 28 June 1823. For an example in a
    neighbouring parish, see St George, Hanover Square, VM, 22 May and 20
    June, 1786.


69. Quoted in Radzinowicz, History, vol. I, p. 254. J.M. Beattie has pointed out that
    this was 'a better description of present practice than it was sound history ... .'.
    See Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 586.