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spy masters on domestic radicals. See Hone, For the Cause of 71-uth, pp. 69-75
and Emsley, 'The Home Office and its Sources of Information and Investiga-
tion', pp. 532-61.
- W. Cobbett and T.C. Hansard (eds), Cobben's Parliamentary Debates 1803-
1820, vol. XXI, cols. 196-8. Hereafter cited as Cobben's ParL Debates.
- For a discussion of Romilly's role in the history of criminal law reform, see
Radzinowicz, History, vol. I, pp. 313-31, 497-522.
- Cobben's Pari. Debates, vol. XXI, cols. 198-208.
- Cobbett's ParL Debates, vol. XXI, cols. 212-13. See also Dickinson, Politics of
the People, pp. 226-9.
- Cobben's ParL Debates, vol. XXI, cols. 210, 213, and 217.
- Colquhoun, 7Teatise, Chaps. XVI, XVII.
- 'Report on the Nightly Watch and Police of the Metropolis' in Cobben's Pari.
Debates, vol. XXII, cols. 67, 77.
- BSP, House of Commons, 1812, vol. I, 1812 Night Watch Bill, p. 1041. Hereafter
cited as 1812 Night Watch Bill. ·
- 1812 Night Watch Bill, p. 1065.
- 1812 Night Watch Bill, pp. 1()44....5, 1062.
- 1812 Night Watch Bill, pp. 1045-6, 1064.
- Cobbett's ParL Debates, vol. XXIII, cols. 950-51.
- Philips, 'Law Enforcement in England, 1780-1830', pp. 172-274.
- The parishes and others in question were: the vestries of St Giles-in-the-Fields
and St George, Bloomsbury; Paddington; StJames, Piccadilly; the Uberty of
Saffron Hill, Hatton Gardens, and Ely Rents; St Pancras; St James and St John,
Oerkenwell; StJohn, Wapping; St Mary, Whitechapel; St George-in-the-East;
St Andrew, Holbom, and St George-the-Martyr; St Luke, Old Street, and the
Commissioners for Paving and Watching St Pancras west of 'lbttenham Court
Road.
- Devon County Record Office, Sidmouth Correspondence, 1812 OH, 'Night
Watch Bill: General Objections of the Agents employed on behalf of several of
the Parishes and Places opposing the above Bill', 11 July 1812. It would be
interesting to know who else received a copy of this printed material.
- St Marylebone, VM, 9 June 1812, 13 June 1812, 27 June 1812, 2 July 1812, 18
July 1812. Actually the first notice taken by the St Marylebone vestry of the bill
on 9 June was only to state that there was not sufficient reason for them to
oppose it. Only eight vestrymen were at that meeting, however, one of whom
was Nathaniel Conant, a police magistrate. Conant was one of the two
police magistrates sent by the government to help deal with the Luddite riots
in 1811-12 and was later made Chief Magistrate at Bow Street. See F.O.
Darvall, Populllr Disturbances and Public Order in Regency England (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1934), pp. 82-3.
- The parishes that were listed as having tried shifts were StJames, Piccadilly; St
Giles and St George, Bloomsbury; and St Andrew, Holbom and St George-
the-Martyr. See Devon County Record Office, Sidmouth Correspondence,
'Night Watch Bill'.
- Devon County Record Office, Sipmouth Correspondence, C.1812 OH, 'Night
Watch Bill'.
- See my 'Night Watch', pp. 402-3.
- St Leonard, Shoreditch, Parish Meeting Minutes, 7 July 1812.
- Devon County Record Office, Sidmouth Correspondence, C.1812 OH, John
Wilks to Sidmouth, 11 July 1812. For more on the increased cost of poor relief
in particular, see Eastwood, Governing Rural Englond, pp. 134-46.
