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University of Reading, May 1983) and her 'Policing London before Peel', esp.
pp.109-11.


  1. PRO, H.O. 42/1, suggestions from W. Robinson of Featherstone St.; and H.O.
    42/S/330, D. Wilmot to Lord Sydney, 22 Nov. 1784.

  2. Paley, 'Policing London before Peel', p. 108.

  3. N. Rogers, 'Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Centwy London: the Vagrancy
    Laws and their Administration', Social History (Canada), 24 (1991), p. 144.

  4. Brewer, 'The Wilkites and the Law', p. 136.

  5. C. Hill, 'The Norman Yoke', in his Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in
    lntetpretatian of the English Revolution of the 17th Century (New York:
    Schocken Books, 1958), pp. S0-122.
    12 Radzinowicz, History, vol. II, pp. SOS-11.

  6. St Luke, Old Street, TM, 9 Aug. 1798.

  7. See, for example, the establishment of the Dismounted Horse Patrol in 1821,
    below, Chap. 8.

  8. Hone, For the Cause of 'Iiuth, pp. 66-82 and C. Emsley, 'The Home Office and
    its Sources of Information and Investigation 1791-1801', English Historical
    Review, 94 (1979), pp. 53Uil.

  9. Black, The Association, Chap. VII. See also A Mitchell, 'The Association
    Movement of 1792-93', The Historical Joumal4 (1961), pp. 56-77; D. Ginter,
    'The Loyalist Association Movement of 1792-93 and British Pubic Opinion',
    The Historical Joumal9 (1966), pp. 179-90; R Dozier, For King, Constitution,
    and Country: English Loyalists and the French Revolution (Lexington, KY:
    University Press of Kentucky, 1983).

  10. Mitchell, 'The Association Movement', pp. 62, 65. See also J. Ehrman, The
    Younger Pitt: the Reluctant 'JTansition (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
    1983), pp. 229-33.

  11. Mitchell, 'The Association Movement', pp. 58, 71.

  12. J.R. Western, 'The Volunteer Movement as an Anti-Revolutionary Force,
    1793-1801', English Historical Review 4 (1956), p. 605.

  13. Western, 'The Volunteer Movement', p. 608.

  14. St George-in-the-East, VM, 6 May 1798. For additional examples, see St
    George, Hanover Square, VM, 20 May 1794; St Anne, Soho, VM, 23 May,
    1796; St Luke, Chelsea, VM, 22 June 1797; and Paddington, VM, 3 Aug. and
    22 Sept., 1803.

  15. Western, 'The Volunteer Movement', p. 607. See also R. Glover, Britain at Bay:
    Defence against Bonaparte, 1803-14 (New York: Barnes and Noble Books,
    1973).

  16. Rude, Hanoverian London, pp. 245-6.

  17. St Leonard, Shoreditch, Parish Meeting Minutes, 28 Oct., 17 Nov. 1803.

  18. J. Bohstedt, Riats and Community Politics in England and Wales 1790-1810
    (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), pp. 49-51.

  19. J. Stevenson, 'The London 'Crimp' Riots of 1794', International Review of
    Social History, 16 (1971), pp. 40-45.

  20. Stevenson, 'London "Crimp" Riots', pp. SS-6.

  21. J.D. Cookson, 'The English Volunteer Movement of the French Wars, 1793-
    1815: Some Contexts', The Historical Journal, 32 (1989), pp. 886-7.

  22. MJ.D. Roberts, 'The Society for the Suppression of Vice and its Early Critics,
    1802-1812', The Historicalloumal26 (1983), p. 159. Hereafter cited as Roberts,
    'Society'. See also Bristow, VICe and VIgilance, pp. 40-43 and M.J.D. Roberts,
    'Making Victorian Morals? The Society for the Suppression of Vice and its

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