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152. St Marylebone, WCM, 15 June 1793.


153. Oink Liberty, PCM, 20 June 1787.


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


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


156. St Marylebone, WCM, 9 June, 24 Sept. 1792.


157. StJames, Piccadilly, VM, 3 May 1794.


158. St George, Hanover Square, VM, 7 Feb. 1785.


159. St Leonard, Shoreditch, Four Rates TM, 11 Dec. 1794. For additional exam-
     ples, see my 'Night Watch', p. 317.


160. Radzinowicz, History, vol. II, pp. 57-133, 305-6; Beattie, Crime and the Courts,
     pp. 50-59.


161. St Anne, Soho, VM, 3 Nov. 1791.


162. Clink Liberty, PCM, 27 Dec. 1786.


163. St James, Piccadilly, VM, 18 Oct. 1791.


164. For some parishes which offered rewards to the general public, see my 'Night
     Watch', p. 322.


165. St Marylebone, WCM, 8 May 1784, 14 Jan. 1786.


166. St Andrew, Holborn, and St George-the-Martyr, WCM, 3 March 1807.


167. St Marylebone, WCM, 6 Dec. 1794. For other examples, see StGeorge, Han-
     over Square, VM, 10 June 1784, Clink Liberty, PCM, 7 Oct. 1789; St Andrew,
     Holborn, and St George-the-Martyr, WCM, 3 March 1807; St Leonard, Shore-
     ditch, Four Rates TM, 16 July 1801.


168. Hume Bentham and Bureaucracy, p. 158.


169. St Marylebone, WCM, 6 Dec. 1794,7 Feb. 1795. The sergeants and watchmen
     blamed some robberies on 'the Neglectful manner in which the Lamps of this
     Parish are lighted .. .'.


170. Beattie, Crime and the Courts, p. 71.

6 Tiffi WAR YEARS, 1793-1815

1. For an excellent recent synthesis of current scholarship on this era, see Dick-
   inson, Politics of the People, esp. Chaps. 7 and 9.


2. C. Emsley, British Society and the French Wars, 1793-1815 (Macmillan, 1979);
   E.P. Thompson The Making of the English Working Class (New York: Vintage
   Books, 1963); A. Goodwin, The Friends of Liberty: the English Democratic
   Movement in the Age of the French Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
   University Press, 1979) and J.A. Hone, For the Cause of 11-uth: &dicalism in
   London 1796-1821 (Oxford: Oarendon Press, 1982). For more bibliography,
   see D. G. Wright, Popular &dicalism: the Working Class Experience, 1780-1880
   (New York: Longman, 1988).


3. H.T. Dickinson, Liberty and Property: Political1deology in Eighteenth-Century
   Britain (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1977), p. 272. See also T.P. Schofield,
   'Conservative Political Thought in Britain in Response to the French Revolu-
   tion,' The Historical Journal 29 (1986}, pp. 601-22.


4. Dickinson, Liberty and Property, pp. 310-12.


5. Dickinson, Liberty and Property, pp. 265-;9. An exception might be made in this
   regard for Thomas Spence and his plan 'for property redistribution.


6. For a fuller treatment of this legislation, see R. Paley, 'The Middlesex Justices
   Act of 1792: Its Origins and Effects' (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation,