200 Notes
See also E.R. N<-nnan, Church and Society in England 1770-1970 (Oxford:
Oarendon Press, 1976), pp. 51-4.
- Soloway, Prelates and People, pp. 290-91; 'The Church Building Act 1818' in
The Church of England 1815-1948: A Documentllry History, ed. R.P. Flindall
(SPCK, 1972), pp. 16-17; Norman, Church and Society, p. 54.
- Webb and Webb, Parish and County, p. 265.
- R. Dobie, History of the United Parishes of St Giles-in-the-Fields and St George,
Bloomsbury, 2nd ed. (Henry Bickers, 1834), pp. 348-9.
- See St James, Oerkenwell, VM, 25 Nov. 1830, 23 Dec. 1830, 6 Feb. 1830, 23
Feb. 1831.
- Sheppard, Marylebone, pp. 267, 278.
- BSP, House of Commons, 1830, vol. IV, Report of Select Committee on Select
Vestries,. p. 484, testimony of George Rawlins, clerk to the churchwardens and
overseers of the poor at StMartin's. Hereafter cited as 1830 Select Committee
Report on Select Hlstries.
- 1830 Select Committee Report on Select Vestries, pp. 657-60, testimony of James
Corder, vestry clerk of St Paul, Covent Garden.
- Zegger, Hobhouse, p. 148; Sheppard, Marylebone, p. 187-98.
80. Eastwood, Governing Rural England, p. 130
81. · Eastwood, Governing Rural England, p. 131.
82. Zegger, Hobhouse, pp. 141-42.
83. See St Matthew, Bethnal Green, VM, 6 Feb. 1823 and Webb and Webb, Parish
and County, pp. 79-90.
84. Report of the Westminster City Council, pp. 17, 35-6. See also St Paul, Covent
Garden, VM, 6 June 1828, 25 Sept. 1828 and 1830 Select Committee Report on
Select Vestries, pp. 657-60, testimony of James Corder, vestry clerk (and leader
of the reform effort) for St Paul, Covent Garden.
85. St Mary, Stoke Newington, VM, 20 May 1829, 10 June 1829.
86. Zegger, Hobhouse, pp. 144-6, 152-5.
87. Sheppard, Marylebone, Chap. XVI; Pari. Debates, 2nd Series, vol. XVIII, cols.
1376-9, vol. XXI, cols. 890-905, 1508-9; St James, Qerkenwell, PCM, 19 May
1829, 4 June 1829. See also St James, Piccadilly, VM, 29 Jan. 1829, 12 Feb.
1829, 12 May 1829.
88. Pari. Debates, 2nd series, vol. XVIII, col. 1376.
89. The Times, 3 March 1829, p. 4.
90. Pari. Debates, 2nd series, vol. XVIII, cols. 798-9; vol. XXI, cols. 883-4. Hume
was also a close associate of James Mill, and S.E. Finer says his name could be
included in a 'Benthamite Roll of Honour'. See Finer, 'The nansmission of
Benthamite Ideas 18:ID-50' in Studies in the Growth of Nineteenth-century
Government, ed. Gilliam Sutherland (Thtowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield,
1972), p. 14. Ten MPs who sat on Peel's Police Committee also sat on Hob-
house's Select Vestries Committee. See CJ, vol. LXXXIII, p. 114 and vol.
LXXXIV, pp. 234, 246.
91. Clink liberty, PCM, 29 April 1829; St Luke, Old Street, TM, 7 May 1829.
92. St Anne, Soho, VM, 8 May 1829.
93. CJ, vol. LXXXIV, p. 311.
94. St John, Hackney, Parish Meeting Minutes, 30 April 1829. The petition was
presented to the House of Commons on May 25 and promptly tabled. CJ,
vol. LXXXIY, p. 339
