A History of Police in EnglandMethuen & Company, 1905 - 416 páginas |
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Act of Parliament allowed amongst appointed apprehended armed arrest authority borough Bow Street Bow Street Runners called century chief City of London Commissioners committed Committee common constabulary convicted Court Court Leet crime criminal Criminal Investigation Department crowd detective districts duties effect efficiency employed England established executive felony forest hand headborough Henry Fielding High Constable Home Secretary Hue and Cry hundred increased Justices King King's Peace labour liberty Lord magistrates measure ment metropolis Metropolitan Police necessary night offences parish constables Parliament parochial patrols peace officers penal persons petty constables police force police officers police system policemen powers prevent prison protection proved punishment reform regulations responsible result riots robbery Scotland Yard Sheriff shillings special constables Statute of Winchester sufficient thieves tion towns tything vagrants Vict violence ward watch watchmen Westminster whilst whole
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Página 48 - ... to hear and determine at the king's suit all manner of felonies and trespasses done in the same county according to the laws and customs aforesaid...
Página 273 - ... or in the neighbourhood thereof, to act as special constables, for such time and in such manner as to the said justices respectively shall seem fit and necessary, for the preservation of the public peace...
Página 237 - It should be understood, at the outset, that the principal object to be attained is the Prevention of Crime. To this great end every effort of the Police is to be directed. The security of person and property, the preservation of the public...
Página 103 - Vagabond above the age of fourteen years shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through the Gristle of the right Ear with a hot Iron of the Compass of an Inch, unless some credible Person will take him into Service for a Year.
Página 48 - ... to take of all them that be not of good fame, where they shall be found, sufficient surety and mainprise of their good behaviour towards the King and his people...
Página 207 - I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this City, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits.
Página 64 - A forest is a certain territory of woody grounds and fruitful pastures privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase and warren, to rest and abide in, in the safe protection of the King, for his princely delight and pleasure...
Página 113 - ... getting in of corn or hay. You shall, in Easter week, cause your parishioners to chuse surveyors for the mending of the highways in your parish.
Página x - I mean the due regulation and domestic order of the kingdom, whereby the individuals of the state, like members of a well-governed family, are bound to conform their general behavior to the rules of propriety, good neighborhood and good manners, and to be decent, industrious and inoffensive in their respective stations.
Página 27 - And if they will not obey the arrest, they shall levy hue and cry upon them, and such as keep the watch shall follow with hue and cry with all the town and the towns near, and so hue and cry shall be made from town to town, until that they be taken and delivered to the sheriff as before is said ; and for the arrestments of such strangers none shall be punished.