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1830; PRO, HO 61/2, A.W. Cutto, Oerk to the Paving Commissioners for East

Division of Southwark to Sir Robert Peel, 6 Aug. 1830.

73. St Luke, Old Street, VM, 30 March 1830. See also St James, Oerkenwell,
    PCM, 1 Jan., 4 Jan., 4 Nov. 1830.


74. A Vestcyman of St Anne's, Limehouse, The Metropolitan Police (1834), p. viii.


75. Vestcyman, The Metropolitan Police, p. vii.


76. PRO, MEPO 1/44, Rowan to Sir Robert Peel, 15 May 1834.


77. See PRO, HO 61/2, meeting announcement for St Pancras, 11 Oct. 1830; Capt.
    Carden, Superintendent S Division, Report on Persons Opposed to Police, 6
    Oct. 1830; Return of Parish Meetings, Sept.-Oct. 1830; HO 59/2, Rowan to
    Phillips, 18 Oct. 1830.


78. PRO, HO 59-2, Rowan to Phillips, 18 Oct. 1830.


79. 1834 Select Committee Reporl on Police, p. 4.


80. 1834 Select Committee Reporl on Police, p. 7.


81. Emsley, Crime and Society, pp. 180, 187-91.


82. St George, Hanover Square, VM, 25 Jan. 1833.


83. St Andrew, Holborn, and St George-the-Martyr, VM, 18 Nov. 1830.


84. It is also interesting to note the way in which the Commissioners of Police used
    volunteer Special Constables to police the streets, while their policemen were
    controlling crowds, something that had been done before under the old system
    of night watch. See, for example, St James, Piccadilly, VM, 4 Nov. 1831.


85. 1834 Select Committee Reporl on Police, p. 21.


86. For the idea that the acceptance of the Metropolitan Police was something
    unexpected, see, for example, TA. Critchley, who gives all the credit for this
    transformation to Rowan and Mayne. See Critchley, History of Police, pp. 55-6.


87. Peel wrote to the Duke of Wellington 'Think of the state of Brentford and
    Deptford, with no sort of police by night!' See Parker (ed.), Peel from His
    Private Papers, vol. II, p. 111. For vestcymen's view, see St Marylebone, VM, 21
    July 1832.


88. Gash, Mr Secretary Peel, p. 331-4. For Chadwick's report, see Finer, Life and
    Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick, pp. 29-30.


89. Chadwick, 'Preventive Police', p. 252.


90. For a similar development in rural policing, see R. Storch, 'Policing Rural
    Southern England before the Police: Opinion and Practice, 1830-1856', in
    Hay and Snyder (eds), Policing and Prosecution, pp. 211-66.


91. W. Bagehot, The English Constitution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,
    1915, repr. 1966), p. 263. I am grateful to Dr Ian B. Mylchreest for this
    reference.