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William Anthony, the last of the London night watchmen. Reproduction of wood engraving.
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The midnight-Ramble: Or, the adventures of Two Noble Females: Being A true and impartial Account of their late Excursion through the Streets of London and Westminster. Wherein is exemplified from Jealousies, Doubts, and Fears, the various Misfortunes which the two Ladies, accompanied by their Milliner (whom they artfully engaged to attend them in Disguise in this Frolick) met with, in Pursuit to discover their Husbands Intrigues. Interspersed with The Humours of Mr. Constable and his Watchmen, who took them into Custody in Covent-Garden, about Three in the Morning.
Date: [1754]- Pictures
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Robert Peel as a pugilist attacking night watchmen with the intention of replacing them by the police force. Etching by Paul Pry (W. Heath).
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: May 26 1829Reference: 31630i- Books
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The cruel watchmen: a sermon on Song v. 7,8,9,10. By the late Reverend, Mr. Samuel Rutherford.
Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]- Books
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The second part of the rule, including the riddle; or, an addition to the everlasting task for blind watchmen and old women. In several letters on law and gospel. By William Huntington, S.S.
Huntington, William, 1745-1813.Date: 1789- Books
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The london-Citizen exceedingly injured: or a British inquisition display'd, in an account of the unparallel'd case of a citizen of London, bookseller to the late Queen, who was in a most unjust and arbitrary Manner sent on the 23d of March last, 1738, by one Robert Wightman, a mere Stranger, to a private madhouse Containing, I. An Account of the said Citizen's barbarous Treatment in Wright's Private Madhouse on Bethnal-Green for nine Weeks and six Days, and of his rational and patient Behaviour, whilst Chained, Handcuffed, Strait-Wastecoated and Imprisoned in the said Madhouse: Where he probably would have been continued, or died under his Confinement, if he had not most Providentially made his Escape: In which he was taken up by the Constable and Watchmen, being suspected to be a Felon, but was unchain'd and set at liberty by Sir John Barnard the then Lord Mayor. II. As also an Account of the illegal Steps, false Calumnies, wicked Contrivances, bold and desperate Designs of the said Wightman, in order to escape Justice for his Crimes, with some Account of his engaging Dr. Monro and others as his Accomplices. The Whole humbly addressed to the Legislature, as plainly shewing the absolute Necessity of regulating Private Madhouses in a more effectual manner than at present.
Cruden, Alexander, 1699-1770.Date: 1739- Books
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A rule and a riddle; or, an everlasting task for blind watchmen and old women. In a letter to a friend. By William Huntington, S.S. Minister of the Gospel at Providence Chapel, Little Titchfield-Street; and at Monkwell Street Chapel, in the City.
Huntington, William, 1745-1813.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The london-Citizen exceedingly injured: or a British inquisition display'd, in an account of the unparallel'd case of a citizen of London, bookseller to the late Queen, who was in a most unjust and arbitrary Manner sent on the 23d of March 1737/8, by one Robert Wightman of Edinburgh, a mere Stranger, to a private madhouse. Containing, I. An Account of the said Citizen's barbarous Treatment in Wright's Private Madhouse on Bethnal-Green for nine Weeks and six Days, and of his rational and patient Behaviour, whilst Chained, Handcuffed, Strait-Wastecoated and Imprisoned in the said Madhouse: Where he probably would have been continued, or died under his Confinement, if he had not most Providentially made his Escape: In which he was taken up by the Constable and Watchmen, being suspected to be a Felon, but was unchain'd and set at liberty by Sir John Barnard the then Lord Mayor. II. As also an Account of the illegal Steps, false Calumnies, wicked Contrivances, bold and desperate Designs of the said Wightman, in order to escape Justice for his Crimes, with some Account of his engaging Dr. Monro the Chairman, and Dr. Guyse, Mr. Crooksbank, J. Oswald, J. Coake, and R. Horton to be Judges of his Blind-Bench, and others as his Accomplices. The whole humbly addressed to the legislature, as plainly shewing the absolute Necessity of regulating Private Madhouses in a more effectual manner than at present.
Cruden, Alexander, 1699-1770.Date: [1739]- Books
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The complete parish-officer; containing, I. The authority and duty of high constables, ... II. Of church-wardens, ... III. Of overseers of the poor, ... IV. Of surveyors of the highways, ... V. Of watchmen, ... Together with the statutes relating to hackney coaches and chairs, watermen, &c. The twelfth edition, corrected, with large additions. To which is added The office of constables, written by Sir Francis Bacon, ...
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1750- Books
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A bill for establishing, maintaining, and well-governing, a nightly watch, within the city of Bristol.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1755]- Books
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At the adjourned wardmote, the 23d of January, 1772, it was ordered, that the Common-Council-Men, for this ward, do summon the inhabitants of their respective precincts, to meet and make choice of proper persons for a committee, to consider of, and form a scheme or method for better regulating the nightly watch within this ward: that such committee do consist of 20 persons, being householders within this ward, and that each precinct do choose 2 of them, and return the names of the persons so chosen to the Beadle, who shall within ten days after such return, give notice tom and appoint a time, and place within the ward, for the meeting of, such committee. ...
London (England). Broad Street Ward.Date: 1772]- Books
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The Scoundrel's dictionary, or An explanation of the cant words used by the thieves, house-breakers, street-robbers and pick-pockets about town. To which is prefixed, some curious dissertations on the art of wheedling; and a collection of their flash songs, with a proper glossary. The whole printed from a copy taken on one of their gang, in the late scuffle between the watchmen and a party of them on clerkenwell-green; which copy is now in the custody of one of the constable of that parish.
Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Pictures
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Boer War: hospital picket on the guard at night. Reproduction of a watercolour.
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An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 12 February 1811Reference: 16984iPart of: Tegg's caricatures- Books
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To the public. There is at present levied annually, ... upon the merchants, shopkeepers, and tradesmen of the City of Edinburgh, 1250l. sterling, ... Application has lately been made by the Lord Provost, ... to Parliament, for leave to bring in a bill to remove the busines of killing or slaughtering of cattle, out of the royalty. It is, therefore, submitted to the public, whether this bill may not vest in the magistrates and Council, a power ... of employing the foresaid 1250l. tax, to maintain a body of 50 or 60 stout watchmen, ...
Date: 1781]- Pictures
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A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.
Date: 12th May 1794Reference: 27640i- Books
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Short remarks upon the printed case of the burgesses and inhabitants of Westminster against the bill, &c. for the better regulating the nightly watch and bedels within the two parishes of St. James, and St. George, Hanover-Square, within the liberties of the city of Westminster.
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Rules to be observed by the constables and watch-men of the Parish of St. Paul's, pursuant to the act of Parliament that the watch house for the said parish be at Aran's bridge, and the following persons watch men for the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty two, ...
St. Paul's (Dublin, Ireland : parish)Date: 1722]- Books
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The necessity of a well-regulated and able-bodied nightly-watch, for the preservation of the honourable city of London; With a Method to effect it, by appointing the Trained-Bands of this City, To do a Nightly-Duty. Most Humbly Inscribed, To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and other Knights and Gentlemen of his Majesty's Court of Lieutenancy, the Officers of the Trained-Bands, and the House-Keepers in General of this opulent City.
Member of the Hon. Artillery-Company.Date: 1752- Books
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The laws respecting parish matters. Containing the several offices and duties of churchwardens, overseers of the poor, constables, watchmen, and Other Parish Officers. The Laws Concerning Rates and Assessments, Settlements and Removals of the Poor, and of the Poor in General. The Laws relating to Repairs of Highways, Weights and Measures, &c. The whole laid down in a plain and easy Manner: in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained. As collected and digested from the several reports, and other books of authority, Up to the Present Time. Also an appendix of precedents; Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of all such Instruments as most frequently occur in the Management of Parish Affairs. The second edition, improved and much enlarged. By the author of The laws of landlord and tenant, Law of Wills, Laws of Masters and Servants, &c.
Bird, James Barry.Date: [1799]- Books
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The new London spy: or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. Containing a true picture of modern high and low life; from the splendid mansions in St. James's, to the subterraneous habitations of St. Giles's, &c. wherein are displayed the various scenes of Covent-Garden, and its environs, the theatres, jelly-houses, gaming-houses, night-houses, coteries, masquerades, mock-masquerades public-gardens, and other places of entertainment, as well as of civil reception, public and private. Together with the various humours of the different inhabitants of the metropolis; particularly of bloods, bucks, choice spirits, and fellows of high fun; motherly matrons, and their obliging daughters; jilts, mock milliners, pimps, panders, jugglers, parasites, mock patriots; shallow politicians, ministerial understrappers; French hair-dressers, parish beadles, reforming constables, decrepit watchmen, &c. &c. &c. The whole exhibiting a striking portrait of London, as it appears in the present year, 1771.
King, Richard, Esq.Date: [1771]- Archives and manuscripts
Letters of condolence on the death of J.O. McWilliam, addressed to his widow
Date: 1862Reference: MS.6832Part of: McWilliam, James Ormiston (1808-1862), F.R.C.P., F.R.S., naval surgeon- Pictures
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The refurbishment (or building) of a Lock Hospital; men with various ailments are stepping out of Pandora's box; a rich, smiling, doctor drives by in a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Williamson, 1802.
Williamson, Thomas, active approximately 1801 - approximately 1825.Date: 1 July 1802Reference: 35154i- Books
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The complete parish-officer; containing, I. The authority and duty of high constables, Petty Constables, Headboroughs, and Tithingmen, in every Branch of their Duties, pursuant to Acts of Parliament: With the High Constables Precepts, Presentments, Warrants, &c. II. Of Churchwardens; how cho-chosen; their Business in repairing of Churches, &c. and assigning of Seats; the Manner of possing their Accounts, and the Laws concerning the Church in all Cases; and an Abstract of all the Acts for building Churches in London and Westminster. Also of Sidesmen, and their Duty; and Vostrymen, &c. III. Of Overseers of the Poor, and their Office; their Power in relieving, employing, and settling, &c. of poor Persons; the Laws relating to the Poor, and Settlements, and the Statutes concerning Masters and Servants. IV. Of Surveyors of the Highways, and Scavengers; how elected; their Business in amending the Ways, &c and the Duty of others, with the Methods of Taxation, and Laws of the Highways. V. Of watchmen, their Original and Power. Together with the new Statutes relating to Hackney Coaches and Chairs, Watermen, &c. The sixteenth edition, revised and corrected, with numerous additions; particularly the Abstracts of all the Acts of Parliament for building and repairing Churches; maintaining the Poor; providing a Watch; paving, cleansing, enlightening, and adorning the several Squares, Streets, and Places within the respective Parishes of England, to the 11th Year of K. George III. inclusive, not to be met with in any other Book of the Law hitherto published. To which is added, The office of constables, written by Sir Francis Bacon, Knt. in the Year 1610, declaring what Power they have, and how they ought to be cherished in their Office.
Jacob, Giles, 1686-1744.Date: 1772- Pictures
Peking, Pechili province, China: a nightwatchman. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19622i