Before the Bobbies. The Night Watch and Police Reform in Metropolitan London, 1720-1830

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Notes 197


  1. Chester, English Administrative System, pp. 142-{)1. Salary scales in lieu of fees
    were introduced into the 'll"easwy in 1782.

  2. Sir G. Stephen, Practical Suggestions for the Improvement of the Police, 2nd ed.
    (London: Samuel Booth, 1829), pp. 17-18.

  3. Davis,~ Poor Man's System of Justice', pp. 309-17.

  4. See, for example, PRO, HO 61/1, 1822 Select Committee Report on Police, pp. 1-2.

  5. St Leonard, Shoreditch, Parish Meeting Minutes, 4 Dec. 1817.

  6. St Luke, Old Street, TM, 5 March 1818. For other examples of the use of the
    word police in reference to parish watch systems, see St John, aerkenwell,
    Peace Officers' Book, 10 Aplil 1822; St Giles-in-the-Fields and St George,
    Bloomsbury, VM, 29 Nov. 1820; Hackney, TM, 14 April 1828; St Marylebone,
    VM, 5 April 1823.

  7. A Police Magistrate, Remarks on the Present Unconnected State of the Police
    Authorities in the Metropolis, and a Method Proposed of Rendering them More
    Effecti~e (T. Hodgson, 1821), p. 5.


8 WHY 1829?



  1. For a fuller discussion of the historiography of this topic, see my 'Night Watch',
    pp. 472-4.

  2. In addition to Palmer, Police and Protest, see G. Broeker, Rural Disorder and
    Police Reform in Ireland, I812-36 (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970).

  3. CJ, vol. LXXVII, pp. 108-9; T.C. Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, 2nd series
    (1820-30), vol. VI, cols. 1165-{). Hereafter cited as Pari. Debates, 2nd series.
    See also Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, p. 313.

  4. PRO, HO 61/1, I822 Select Committee Report on the Police, p. 3.

  5. I822 Select Committee Report on the Police, p. 11.

  6. Quoted in Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, p. 314.

  7. The Times, 14 Oct. 1822, p. 3. See also Critchley, History of Police, pp. 44-5, on
    the establishment of the day patrol.

  8. PRO, H0/60/1, H. Hobhouse to W. Wyatt, Esq. and J. Hardwick, Esq., 2 May



  9. Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, pp. 314-26.

  10. British Library, Additional Manuscripts 38195, Peel Papers, f. 122, Robert Peel
    to Lord Liverpool, 12 Oct. 1822.

  11. Radzinowicz, History, vol. I, pp. 567-90 and Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, pp. 326-9.

  12. Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, pp. 339-40.

  13. Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, p. 342.

  14. Quoted in Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, p. 437.

  15. For a fuller discussion of the Cabinet shuffie in 1827-28, see Gash, Mr.
    Secretary Peel, Chap. 13. Peel inherited his father's title on the first Sir Robert's
    death in 1827.

  16. British Library, Additional Manuscripts 40395, Peel Papers, ff. 204-5, Peel
    to Hobhouse, 4 Feb. 1828. Hobhouse had resigned the previous year, when
    Peel left office. Peel tried to convince him, unsuccessfully, to return in 1828.
    Hobhouse was replaced by S.M. Phillips. See Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel,
    p. 492.

  17. Pari. Debates, 2nd Series, vol. XVIII, cols. 791, 793.

  18. Pari. Debates, 2nd Series, vol. XVIII, col. 793.

  19. Pari. Debates, 2nd Series, vol. XVIII, cols. 795-8.

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