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

Notes^201

9 CHARLIES TO BOBBIES

1. See, for example, Critchley, History of Police, pp. 47-57; Browne, Rise of Scot-
   land ~rd, pp. 73-90; and Palmer, Police and Protest, pp. 294-315.


2. Palmer, Police and Protest, pp. 295-6; Browne, Rise of Scotland Yard, pp. 78-9.


3. Gash, Mr Secretary Peel, p. 500.


4. 10 Geo. IV c. 44 s. 4.


5. The 1774 Act specified the ratio of watchmen and patrols to houses in a parish,
   mandated that there must be patrols as well as watchmen, and set the hours of
   duty during the seasons of the year. See above, Chap. 4.


6. Parker (ed.), Peel from his Private Papers, vol. II, p. 40.


7. See PRO, MEPO 1/1, 29 July 1929, 21 Aug. 1829, 29 Aug. 1829, 18 Sept. 1829,
   7 Dec. 1829, 4 Jan. 1830; MEPO 1/2: 10 Feb. 1830, 12 March 1830.


8. 10 Geo. IV c. 44 s. 19.


9. For comparison, see Map 1.1.


10. The jurisdictions not shown on Map 9.1 but included in the Metropolitan
    Police District were: Liberty of Saffron Hill, Liberty of the Rolls; Furnival,
    Lincoln's and Gray's Inns; St Botolph, Bishopsgate; 1Hnity Minories; St Peter
    ad Vincula lbwer; St Botolph, Aldersgate; St Mary, Newington Butts; St John,
    Hampstead; Fulham; Hammersmith; Chiswick; Baling; Acton; New Brentford;
    Barnes; Penge; Oapham; Putney; Streatham; Wandsworth; Hatcham. These
    places were too small or too distant to fit on this map.


11. Quoted in Browne, Rise of Scotland ~rd. p. 85.


12. Palmer, Police and Protest, p. 296.


13. St Marylebone, VM, 21 July 1832. See also Paley, 'Policing London before
    Peel', pp. 114-26.


14. Quoted in Browne, Rise of Scotland ~rd. p. 82. See also Radzinowicz, History,
    vol. IY, p. 162 and Palmer, Police and Protest, p. 297.


15. Browne, Rise of Scotland ~rd, pp. 82-3.


16. E. Chadwick, 'Preventive Police', London Review 1 (1829), p. 274. See also
    Hume, Bentlulm and Bureaucracy, pp. 96-7. S.E. Finer explains that Chadwick
    had intended to submit his remarks to the 1828 Select Committee but his clerk
    lost his papers and the Committee issued its Report before Chadwick found
    them. See S.E. Finer, The Life and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick (New York:
    Barnes and Noble, 1952), p. 30.


17. 10 Geo. IV c. 44.


18. Emsley, Crime and Society, p. 190. See also Critchley, History of Police, pp. 160-


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20. For this division in modem police forces, seeM. Cain, Society and the Police-
    man's Role (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973), pp. 208-9.


21. Browne, Rise of Scotland Yard, pp. 82-3.


22. Palmer, Police and Protest, p. 303.


23. Quoted in W. Miller, Cops and Bobbies: Police Authority in New York
    and London 1830-1870 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973),
    p. 12.


24. Quoted in Palmer, Police and Protest, p. 314.


25. Miller, Cops and Bobbies, p. 28.


26. Miller, Cops and Bobbies, pp. 28-9.


27. St Luke, Middlesex, TM, 2 Sept. 1829, 4 Feb. 1830. For another example, see
    St Leonard, Shoreditch, Four Rates TM, 8 Jan. 1830.