234 Indexvagrants, vagrancy, 10, 24, SO, 57, 85,
91, 117
see also beggars
vestry clerks, 10, 17,51-2, 56, 63-4, 79,
101, 130, 139, 146, 155, 158, 162,
see also individual names and
parishes
vestries, 5, 7-9, 11, 14-16, 18-19, 21-2,
27-9, 38, 43-4, 52-3, 55, 62, 64,
67-8, 80, 82, 86, 88-9, 91, 93,
100-2, 108-9, 114-21, 125, 127,
137, 140-47, 155, 159-60, 163,
165; authority of, 9, 26, 31-2, 41,
50, 52, 54, 56-7, 66,. 97, 100,
114-15, 117, 122, 146-9, 151, 156;
closed, see select; corruption,
140-45; duties of, 8, 26, 32, 50, 61,
66, 92, 141-2; membership of, 8,
143-5, 154-5; minutes of
meetings, 5, 26-7; open, 8, 19, 34,
143-6, 154; reform of, 126,
140-45, 154; select, 8, 19, 34, 41,
126, 140-46, 154 see also
government, local; vestrymen, and
individual parish names
vestrymen,4-5,8, 16,19-21,24-5,29,
41, 55, 100-1, 108-9, 117, 127,
130-31, 136-9, 141-7, 154, 156,
159-60, 165
see also government, local; vestries;
watch committees
vice, 4, 11, 14, 20-21, 32-3, 37, 67,
70-71, 73, 84, 97, 121, 154
Society (Society for the Suppression
of Vice), 84, 87-9, 91
volunteer(s), 108
CJorps,84, 86-9,109-10,134
societies, 12, 44, 70-71, 84, 86, 88-9,
97, 102, 104
see also amateurism, private
societies
VVade,John, 116-17,132-4
wages, 81, 92, 101, 119-20, 146
of beadles, 23
of constables, 22, 49, 107-9
of patrols, 51, 53, 112
of police constables, 99, 112-13
of watchhouse keepers, 23
of watchmen, 22, 35, 49, 51-3, 62,
90, 92-3, 118
VValworth, Surrey, 67
VVapping, see St John
war
American VVar of Independence,
see American Revolution
and crime rates, 20-21, 28-30,
58, 102, 104-5 see also France,
wars, Revolutionary and
Napoleonic
warrants, 45, 74, 86, 156, 158
search, 9, 13, 74, 110
watch and ward, keeping, 12, 15, 19,
23,28,40,103
watch rates, see rates, watch
watch accounts, see accounts, watch
watchboxes, 62, 79-80, 120, 131
watch committees, 4-5, 22, 26, 31, 44,
54, 56, 89, 91, 96, 99-100, 114,
116, 118, 123-5, 135, 138, 153
complaints about, 49, 143-4
meetings, 55
members of, 31, 96, 98-9, 101,
130-31, 136, 162
morale of, 125, 137, 147
reports, 26, 79, 93
work of, 22, 26-7, SO, 62-8, 79-82,
92-3, 100, 102-3, 116-18,
120-24, 137, 143-4, 146
see also night watch and individual
parishes
watchhouses, 15-16, 24, 49, 142, 146
watchhouse keepers, 5, 22,
duties of, 23, 26-7, 66, 122
wages of, 23, 119
watchmen, 4-5, 11, 32, 166
accountability of, 11-12, 15-16, 23,
26, 37, 50, 53, 62-4, 90, 94, 96,
99-100, 114-17, 119-20, 122,
127, 133, 146-7, 154
age of, 49, 65, 90, 114, 117-19
appointment of, 9, 11-12, 17, 21-2,
36-7, 40, 44, 53, 94, 101,
114-15, 117, 122, 146-7
assaults on, 16,55-6, 68,80,119
authority of, 19, 25, 37, 40, 53, 121-2,
beats, 23, 25, 49, 53, 63-5, 78-9, 83,
93, 97, 120, 152