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53. Here I disagree with the Webbs, who saw this as occurring at the end of the
    seventeenth century. See Webb and Webb, Statutory Authorities, p. 364.


54. GLRO/MRC/2, Metropolitan Roads Commission, Minutes, 23 Nov. 1827.
    The Commission did keep up the street lights on these roads. See 30 Aug.
    1827.


55. PRO/H0/60/1, Police Ently Books, 15 Nov. 1827, Phillips to H. Rivaz.


56. PRO/H0/60/1, Police Ently Books, 12 April 1928, Phillipps to W. Benett, Esq.
    See also 4 Apri11827, Hobhouse to William Jones, Esq.; 31 Oct. 1827, Phillipps
    to William Baker, Esq.; 19 Dec. 1827, Phillips to William Smith, Esq.; 2 Jan.
    1828, Phillipps to Lt. Col. Carmichael; 9 Feb. 1828, Phillipps to Mr.
    Cronthwaite, Esq.


57. See Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, pp. 320-26.


58. Quoted in Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, p. 492. See also Palmer, Police and Protest,
    p. 291.


59. British Library, Additional Manuscripts 40397, Peel Papers ff. 324-9, Viscount.
    Lowther to Peel, 17 Nov. 1828. The men on Lord Lowther's list are:
    John Austin, St Macylebone vestlyman; John Camik, of Hackney; Mr
    Sandford, accountant and collector of parish rates; Rev. Mr Carmalt, Putney
    schoolmaster; Mr Delgas, Chiswick vestly clerk; William Gutterson, Esq.,
    Enfield resident and Middlesex magistrate; Thomas Aveling, Esq., partner in
    Hanbury and Buxton brewery; Joseph Adams, Wapping merchant; Mr
    Earnshaw, Islington, St Luke's vestly clerk; Mr Davis, St Leonard, Shoreditch
    vestly clerk; R. Jones, commissioner of Metropolis Roads; Mr Read, aer-
    kenwell 'a busy money making man'; James Lyon, solicitor to the
    Metropolis Roads Commission; Edward Moses, Esq., magistrate and Mr Wix,
    magistrate.


60. Peel laid out a summary of his plans in a letter to Hobhouse dated 12
    December 1828. See British Library, Additional Manuscripts 40397, Peel
    Papers, ff. 378-82.


61. Pari. Debates, 2nd Series, vol. XXI, cols 872-3.


62. ParL Debates, 2nd Series, vol. XXI, col. 877.


63. Pari. Debates, 2nd Series, vol. XXI, cols. 867-81, 15 Apri11829. See also Peel to
    Wellington, 29 May 1829, in C.S. Parker, (ed.), Sir Robert Peel from his Private
    Papers (John Murray, 1899, reprint 1979), vol. II, pp. 111-12.


64. Parker (ed.), Peel from his Private Papers, vol. II, pp. 112-13.


65. Gash, Mr. Secretary Peel, p. 496. See also Palmer, Police and Protest, p. 293.


66. Eastwood, Governing Rural England, p. 127.


67. Radzinowicz, History, vol. IV, pp. 4, 60; R.E. Zegger, John Cam Hobhouse: A
    Political Life, 1819-1852 (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1973),
    pp. 144-5.


68. M.E. Rose, 'Introduction: the poor and the city, 1834-1914' in The Poor and the
    City: the English Poor Law in its Urban Context, 1834-1914, ed. M.E. Rose
    (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1985), pp. 7-8. See also G.R. Boyer, An
    Economic History of the English Poor Law 1750-1850 (Cambridge: Cambridge
    University Press, 1990), pp. 240-41.


69. St Matthew, Bethnal Green, VM, 22 May 1829.


70. Sheppard, Marylebone, pp. 187-203. See also M. Falkus, 'Lighting in the Dark
    Ages of English Economic History: Town Streets before the Industrial Revolu-
    tion', in Trade, Government and Economy, ed. D.C. Coleman and FJ. Fisher
    (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976), pp. 248-73.


71. Quoted in R.A Soloway, Prelates and People: Ecclesiastical Social Thought in
    England 1783-1852 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969), pp. 289-90.