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58. PRO, HO 59-2/30, 'Summary'.


59. Emsley, Crime and Society in England, pp. 54-5, 132-3; see also D. Philips,
    Crime and Authority in VICtorian England (Croom Helm, 1977) and J. Davis, ~
    Poor Man's System of Justice: The London Police Courts in the Second Half of
    the Nineteenth Century', The Historical Journal 27 (1984), pp. 309-35.


60. PRO, HO 59-1/30, Shadwell Police Magistrates to the Home Office, 12 Dec.
    1820.


61. PRO, H.O. 59-1/30, Longley to Sidmouth, 12 Dec. 1820; H.O. 59-2/30, 'Sum-
    mary'.


62. Palmer, Police and Protest, pp. 171-2.


63. 2 Geo. IV. c. 118; see also J. Wade, A 'Jreatise on the Police and Crimes of the
    Metropolis (Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith, 1829, reprint 1972), pp. 68-9 and
    F. Sheppard, Local Government in St Marylebone 1688-1835 (The Athlone
    Press, 1958), p. 190.


64. CJ, voL LXXVI, pp. 296, 304.


65. St Marylebone, VM, 5 April 1823. For a full account of White's case from the
    vestry's point of view, see also VM, 23 Nov. 1822, 30 Nov. 1822, 14 Dec. 1822,
    21 Dec. 1822.


66. Palmer, Police and Protest, Chaps. IH!. See also N. Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel
    (Longmans, 1961), pp. 310-13.


67. PRO, HO 61/1, printed copy of BSP, House of Commons, 1822, voL IV, Select
    Committee Report on the Police of the Metropolis, p. 9. Hereafter cited as 1822
    Select Committee Report on Police. See next chapter for a fuller discussion of
    Robert Peel's efforts and a comparison of the 1822 and 1828 Select Commit-
    tees on the Police.


68. 1822 Select Committee Report on Police, p. 101.


69. 3 Geo. IV. c. 55; see also Wade, Treatise on the Police, p. 69. CJ, voL LXXVII,
    pp. 379, 390 and 406.


70. Critchley, HIStory of Police, p. 44.


71. Wade, 'Jreatise on the Police, p. 68.


72. St Giles-in-the-Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, VM, 16 May 1807, 16 June
    1809, 28 Nov. 1820; PRO, HO 61/1, Charles Stable to Lord Sidmouth, 3 May
    1821.


73. PRO, HO 61/1, printed copy of the regulations of the beadles in St Giles-
    in-the-Fields and St George, Bloomsbury, 5 Dec. 1825; John Rawlinson
    to Henry Hobhouse, 25 March 1826; Rawlinson to Robert Peel, 7 Dec.
    1826; copy of letter fro~ Rawlinson to Mr. Greenwell, St Marylebone vestry
    clerk. See also St Marylebone, VM, 25 March, 1 April 1826. The relationship
    between Rawlinson and the Marylebone vestry was not always cordial. See
    St Marylebone, VM, 5 April1823; esp. Appendices Nos. 4,6,7,10 and 11; 8, 15
    July 1826.


74. St Marylebone, VM, 16 Dec. 1826, 22 Jan. 1827, 10 Feb. 1827.


75. GLRO, P83/MRY1/657-1 and 2, St Mary, Islington, Draft WCM, 12 Sept.


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77. Wade, 'Jreatise on the Police, p. 362; See also testimony of William Bodkin
    before 1828 Select Committee: BSP, House of Commons, 1828, vol. VI, Report
    of the Select Committee on the Police of the Metropolis, p. 71. Hereafter cited as
    1828 Select Committee Report on Police.


78. St Luke, Old Street, TM, 20 Dec. 1827, 26 Dec. 1827, 3 Jan. 1828, 7 Feb. 1828.


79. For additional examples of early evening patrols or the use of double shifts, see
    my 'Night Watch', pp. 450-51.


80. See Cobbett's Pari. Debates, voL XXI, coL 196.