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51. 1828 Select Committee Report on Police, Appendix M, pp. 414-15; PRO, H0/65
    11, S.M. Phillips to.Overseers of the Poor, St Nicholas, Deptford.


52. PRO, HO 61/4, Memorial of Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor for St
    Nicholas, Deptford to Lord Melbourne, July 1831.


53. See my 'Night Watch', pp. 576-7.


54. PRO, HO 65/11, Phillips to Overseers of the Poor, 7 Oct. 1831, 19 Oct. 1831, 15
    Dec. 1830.


55. ParL Debates, 2nd series, vol. XXI, col. 872.


56. BSP, House of Commons, 1834, vol. XVI, Report of the Select Committee on the
    Police of the Metropolis, pp. 11-12. Hereafter cited as 1834 Select Committee
    Report on Police. See also PRO, HO 65/11, S.M. Phillips to Overseers of the
    Poor, St John, Hackney, 14 Jan. 1831..


57. The others were: Saffron Hill (including Ely Rents); St Sepulchre; St
    Olave, Southwark; Liberty of the Tower; St Paul, Shadwell; Ratcliffe; St
    Anne, Limehouse; Mile End, Old Town; Norton Falgate; and the Liberty of
    Glasshouse Yard. New Brentford was on the outer edge of the police district.


58. ParL Debates, 2nd series, vol. XXI, col. 872.


59. BSP, House of Commons, 1832, col. XXXIII, Revenue and Expenditure of
    Metropolitan Police, pp. 567-9.


60. PRO, HO 61/8, J. Wray to S.M. Phillips, 25 March 1833.


61. PRO, HO 65/11, William Peel to J.K. Stewart, 1 Sept. 1829; Phillips to Stewart,
    19 Oct. 1829; 17 Dec. 1829; Phillips to Stewart, 3 Feb. 1830; 5 Oct. 1830;
    Phillips to Wray, 1 Feb. 1831; G. Lamb to Stewart, 7 Nov. 1831; Phillips to
    Stewart, 10 Oct. 1832; H.O. 61/11, Wray to Phillips, 2 Jan. 1834.


62. PRO, HO 65/12, G. Lamb to Overseers, 31 Aug. 1833. The act was 3 & 4 Will.
    4c.89.


63. St Marylebone, VM, 21 July 1832.


64. See, for examples: on increased theft -St Luke, Old Street, VM, 30 March
    1831; meeting in St Mary, Stoke Newington, reported in The Times, 22 Oct.
    1830, p. 3; Hackney, Parish Meeting Minutes, 21 Oct. 1830; St George-in-the-
    East, VM, 10 Oct. 1830; St Mary, Islington, VM, 22 Sept. 1830; nuisances -St
    Mary, Islington, TM, 11 Aug. 1830; East Division, Southwark, PCM, 1 April
    1830; St James, Oerkenwell, PCM, 7 Oct. 1830.


65. See my 'St Marylebone,' p. 459.


66. GLRO, P71/TMS/494, W. Stainer, vestry clerk, to Lord Melbourne, 25 Jan.


67. See also GLRO, P71/TMS/478, 10 Jan. 1831. For additional examples,
    see Oapham, VM, 21 Oct. 1830; StMary, Stoke Newington, VM, 4 June 1830.


68. The speakers had all been watch trustees or committee members. PRO, H.O.
    61/2, Return of Parish Meetings, 1830 and Robert Stanton, Esq., late MP for
    Penryn to Peel, 2 Oct. 1830.


69. St Leonard, Shoreditch, Parish Meeting Minutes, 29 Sept. 1830. The resolu-
    tions in opposition to the Metropolitan Police were adopted unanimously.


70. The Times, 15 Oct. 1830, p. 3.


71. For an example of street lamp reports, see MEPO 1/1, Mayne to J. and C.
    Pugh, joint clerks for Paving, etc., St Andrew, Holborn, and St George-the-
    Martyr, 6 Nov. 1829. For inspectors of nuisances, see MEPO 1/1, Mayne to
    J. Wallin, Esq., Oerk to Parish of St Anne, Westminster, 2 Feb. 1830. For
    church duty, see MEPO 1/1, Mayne to T. Cook, Esq., 18 Dec. 1829.


72. 10 Geo. IV c. 44 s. 4.


73. See St James, Oerkenwell, PCM, 21 Oct. 1830, 5 May 1831, 19 May 1831; St
    Marylebone, Committee of Management Minutes, 1 Sept. 1830 and 22 Dec.