Index
accountability, 12-13, 69-70, 77, 82-3,
90, 94, 100-2, 123-4, 129-33, 139,
145-7, 153, 163, 165
of beadles, 10, 16-17,23,26-8,40,
53, 62-3, 120
of constables, 9, 11, 13-16, 19, 23,
25-8, 32,38,40, 49-50,5~
54-7, 62-3, 65-7, 97, 99, 107-9,
112-13, 116, 120-25, 128,
134-5
of government, 58, 60-61, 74-5, 85,
104, 106-10, 134, 144-5
of magistrates, 13, 31-2, 49, 60,
74-5, 97, 108-9, 112, 122-3,
128, 134-5, 147
of patrols, 52, 57, 64, 99, 103, 112-14,
117
of vestries and vestrymen, 13-14, 25,
34, 108, 140-47
of volunteers, 86, 102-3, 108-10
of watch committees, 54-5, 62, 99,
121-2, 143-4
ofwatchmen, 10-11,14-17,19,23-4,
26-8,37,50,53-4,56-7,61-5,
97,99,103,107,113-17,119-24,
125,127,147
Account of a Successful Experiment for
an Effectual Nightly Watch, 103-4
accounts
parish, 109, 121, 141-3
poor,92-3, 141-2
watch, 11-12, 15-19, 79-80, 92-6,
101-3, 116, 136-7, 143-4, 155-6
Acts of Parliament (including bills), 3-
4, 8, 27, 29, 33, 38, 46, 50, 53, 61,
68, 108, 116-17, 121-2, 127-8,
138, 143, 157
Additional Churches Act (1818), 141
Great Reform Bill (1832), 160
Hobhouse's Vestry Act (1831),
144-5, 154
Metropolitan Police Act (1829), 5,
56, 125-6, 139-40, 143-6, 148,
154-5, 157, 159, 162-3
Middlesex Justices Act (1792 and
1821), 76,84-6,114-15,134
Night Watch Acts and Bills, 3, 16,
18-19, 22-3, 29, 35, 37, 39-41,
44, 51, 78, 9~ 94-5; Nightly
Watch Bill (1720) 7-15;
Westminster (1774), 45, 51-7,
96-7, 103, 148; Nightly Watch
Bill (1812), 99-102, 116-18,
145
Police Bill (1785), 73-6, 85-6
Riot Act, 31
Seditious Meetings Act (1819), 110
Six Acts (1819), 110
Sturges Bourne Vestry Acts (1818,
1819), 142-3
Thames River Police Act (1800),
76-7
turnpike trust acts, 36, 78
Westminster Constables Act (1756),
46,54
see also Parliament
alcohol, 20-21, 23, 60, 73, 80
see also gin, liquor licensing, pubs
Allen, Lancelot Baugh, 106-7
amateurism, 14-15, 34, 42-4, 49, 62-3,
66-7,71-2,74,84-5,86-9,94,
96-8, 100, 102-4, 107-10, 113,
120-21, 124-5, 131-4, 165
American Revolution, 58-60, 164
Annual Register, 30
Applebee's Weekly Journal, 15
arms and weapons, 22-3, 27, 35, 51, 72,
78,81, 83, 87,96-7,103,109-10,
120
army, see military
Arran, Lord, 15
arrest(s), 69, 71, 77, 80, 109, 128
powers of, 10, 12, 18, 23, 25, 31, 37,
40, 45, 47, 53, 65-6, 113,
121-3Bagehot, Walter, 165-6
ballad singers, 49-50220