A HISTORY OF
POLICE IN ENGLAND

BY
Captain W. L. MELVILLE LEE
M.A. Oxon.

"Qu'on examine la cause de tous les reláchemens, on verraqu'elle vient de l'impunité des crimes et non pas de la modérationdes peines."—"L'Esprit des Lois-Bk. VI.," cap. xxii.

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
1901


DEDICATED

BY PERMISSION

TO

The Right Hon. LORD ALVERSTONE, G.C.M.G.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND


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CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I.Anglo-Saxon and Norman Police1
II.Watch and Ward21
III.Justice and Constable43
IV.Forest Police and Police in the Fifteenth Century60
V.Commercial Police and Police under the Tudors82
VI.Ecclesiastical Police and Police under James I.99
VII.Military Police and Police under Charles II.124
VIII.Bow Street Police and Magisterial Reform155
IX.Parochial Police of the Eighteenth Century176
X.Police at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century196
XI.Pioneer Reformers217
XII."The New Police"228
XIII."[ii]Public Opposition to the "New Police""245
XIV.Police Reform in Boroughs262
XV.Police Reform in Counties...

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