A.

Abstract of the annual Imports into, and Exports from the Port of London (table), [215], [216]
—— of Persons committed, and discharged from Prisons in one year, an extraordinary document (table), [430]
Account of Pawnbrokers in the Metropolis, and the vast property in their houses belonging to the poor, [110]
—— of various descriptions of Cheats, [123], [124], [125], [126], [127]
—— of the number of Streets, Lanes, Houses and Families in the Metropolis, [568]
—— of the previous Plans and Arrangements of Thieves when a Robbery or Burglary is contemplated, [291]
—— of the usual Mode of proceeding to recover stolen property, [383]
—— of the Number of Persons engaged in fraudulent Lotteries, [156]
—— of the Trials at the Old Bailey in 1790 and 1791, [394], [395]
—— of ditto in 1793 and 1795, [446]-[448]
—— of the Officers of Justice in the Metropolis, [397]
—— of the Watchmen and Patroles there, [414]
—— of the Magistrates there, [398], [399]
—— of the Criminal Courts there, [428]
—— of the specific Criminals punishable by Law, [437]-[444]
—— of the Convicts in the Hulks, [455]
—— of the Names of the City and Police Magistrates, [504], [505]
—— of the Churches and other places of Worship in the Metropolis, [568]
—— of the Seminaries of Education in the Metropolis, [569], [570]
—— of the Societies for promoting Religion and Morality, [570], [571]
—— of the Societies for promoting the Arts, [571]
—— of the Asylums for the Indigent and Helpless, [572]
—— of the Hospitals for the Sick and for Pregnant Women in the Metropolis, [573]
—— of the Institutions for Charitable and Humane Purposes, [574], [575]
—— of the Charity annually distributed in the Metropolis estimated at £850,000 a year, [357], [358]
—— of the Courts for Civil and Criminal Justice in the Metropolis, [577]-[582]
—— of the Prisons in the Metropolis, ibid.
—— of the different Classes of Professional Men connected with the departments of the Law, about 7000 in all, [583]
—— of the Number of Writs issued in Middlesex in 1793, with an extraordinary statement of the Expences on small Law-suits, [585], [586], [587]
Acquittals, See [Prisoners].
Actions at Law for small Debts, [584], [587]
Expence enormous beyond all credibility, ibid.
Acts of Parliament referred to in this Work.

2 Geo. 3. c. 28. for preventing Frauds by Persons navigating Bum-boats on the River Thames, [237], n., [269]
31 Elizabeth, c. 4
22 Charles 2d. c. 5
9 & 10 William 3d. c. 41
1 George 1st. stat. 2. c. 25
9 George 1st. c. 8
17 Geo. 2d. c. 40
9 Geo. 3d. c. 35
12 Geo. 3d. c. 24		Relative to the Protection of his Majesty's Stores, [261]-[263]
14 Geo. 3d. c. 90, for regulating the Westminster Watch, &c., [107]
25 Edward 3d. stat. 5. c. 2
1 Mary, stat. 2. c. 6
1 & 2 P. & M. c. 11
5 Eliz. c. 11
14 Eliz. c. 3
18 Eliz. c. 1
7 William 3d. c. 3
8 & 9 William 3d. c. 26
9 & 10 William 3d. c. 21
7 Anne, c. 24, 25
15 & 16 Geo. 2d. c. 28
11 Geo. 3d. c. 40
37 Geo. 3d. c. 126
38 Geo. 3d. c. 59-67
39 Geo. 3d. c. 75		Relative to the Coinage and disposal of Base Money, [192], [193], [194]
33 Henry 8th. c. 1
30 Geo. 2d. c. 24		Relative to Cheats and Swindlers, [113], [114]
9 Anne, c. 14
8 Geo. 1st. c. 2
12 Geo. 2d. c. 28		Relative to Gaming, [134], [135]
9 Geo. 2d. c. 5. relative to Fortune-tellers being punished by standing four times in the Pillory, [130]
3 & 4 William 3d. c. 9
1 Anne, c. 9
5 Anne, c. 31
4 Geo. 1st. c. 11
29 Geo. 2d. c. 30
30 Geo. 2d. c. 24
2 Geo. 3d. c. 28
10 Geo. 3d. c. 48
21 Geo. 3d. c. 69
22 Geo. 3d. c. 58		Relative to Receivers of Stolen Goods, [298]-[300]
5 Edw. 3d. c. 14
34 Edw. 3d. c. 1		Relative to the Office & power of Constables, [387]
8 Geo. 2d. c. 16. relative to Hue and Cry, [389]
4 William & Mary, c. 8
6 & 7 William & Mary, c. 17
10 & 11 William 3d. c. 23
5 Anne, c. 31
6 Geo. 1st. c. 23
3 Geo. 2d. c. 16
14 Geo. 2d. c. 6
15 Geo. 2d. c. 34
15 & 16 Geo. 2d. c. 28
16 Geo. 2d. c. 15
3 Geo. 3d. c.15		Relative to Rewards for apprehending different classes of offenders, [390]-[392]
25 Edward 3d. stat. 5. c. 2; 36 Geo. 3d. c. 7, relative to High Treason, [38], [39]
25 Henry 8th. c. 6. Sodomy made capital, [46]
18 Eliz. c. 7, Rape made capital, [46], [47]
3 Henry 7th. c. 2
39 Eliz. c. 9		Forcible marriage and Defilement made capital, [48]
6 Henry 4th. c.5
22 & 23 Charles 2d. c.2		Mayhem or Maiming made capital, [49]
35 George 3d. c. 67, Polygamy punished by Transportation, ibid.
King Athelstan's Law (anno 956) punished Theft with Death, if above the value of One Shilling, [51]
9 Henry 1st. punished Theft with Death (anno 1108), [52]
23 Henry 8th. c. 1
1 Edw. 6th. c. 12
5 & 6 Edw. 6. c. 9
39 Eliz. c.15
3 & 4 William & Mary, c. 9
10 & 11 William 3d. c. 23
12 Anne, stat. 1 c. 7		As to Felonies in Dwelling-Houses, [54], [55]
23 Henry 8th. c. 1
43 Eliz. c. 13
22 & 23 Charles 2d. c. 7, 11
1 Geo. 1st. c. 48
4 George 1st. c. 12
9 —— 1st. c. 22
10 —— 2d. c. 32
27 —— 2d. c. 25
9 —— 3d. c. 21
12 —— 3d. c. 24		Relative to Arson and Burning Houses, Barns, Corn, Underwood, Ships, &c., [56], [57]
18 Eliz. c. 7
3 & 4 William & Mary, c. 9
12 Anne, stat. 1. c. 7		Relative to Burglary, [57]
1 Edw. 6th. c. 12
21 Jac. 1st. c. 6
3 & 4. William & Mary, c. 9
4 & 5 William and Mary, c. 24
5 Anne, c. 6		Relative to the Benefit of Clergy, [439]
4 Geo. 13. c. 11; 6 Geo. 1st. c. 23, legalizing Transportation to the Colonies, [436], [437]
The same Statute appropriated the Services of Convicts, [454]
16 Geo. 3d. first legalized the system of the Hulks, [455]
16 Geo. 3d. c. 23, legalized Penitentiary Houses in Counties, ibid.
19 Geo. 3d. c. 74, legalized two National Penitentiary Houses, [456]
24 Geo. 3d. stat. 2. c. 56, relative to Transportation and the Hulks, [460]
27 Geo. 3d. c. 2; 30 Geo. 3d. c. 47, relative to New South Wales, [462]
28 Geo. 3d. c. 24, contracts for Convicts, ibid.
2 Will. & Mary, c. 8, relative to paving the Metropolis, [592]
10 Geo. 2d. c. 22
11 Geo. 3d. c. 29
14 Geo. 3d. c. 78
33 Geo. 3d. c. 75
34 Geo. 3d. c. 65—(Watermen),		Relative to the Police of the City of London, [592]-[597]
27 Elizabeth
16 Chars. 1st.		divided the City into WardsRelative to the Police of London and Westminster, [593], [594]
29 George 2d. c. 25
31 —— 2d. c. 17
2 —— 3d. c. 21
3 —— 3d. c. 23
5 —— 3d. c. 13 & 50
11 —— 3d. c. 22
14 —— 3d. c. 90
28 —— 2d. c. 9
6 —— 3d. c. 24		Relative to the Police of Southwark, [594]
6 Henry 6th. c. 5
6 —— 8th. c. 10
23 —— 8th. c. 5
25 —— 8th. c. 10
3 & 4 Edw. 6th. c. 8
1 Mary, stat. 3. c. 11
13 Eliz. c. 9
8 James, c. 14
7 Anne, c. 10		Relative to the System of the Sewers, [594], [595]
9 Anne, c. 23
10 —— c. 19
12 —— stat. 1. c. 14
1 Geo. 1st. c. 57
12 —— 1st. c. 2
30 —— 2d. c. 22
4 —— 3d. c. 36
7 —— c. 44
10 —— c. 44
11 —— c. 24, 28
12 —— c. 49
24 —— stat. 2. c. 27
26 —— c. 72
32 —— c. 47
33 —— c. 75		Relative to Hackney Coaches and Chairs, [595]
1 Geo. 1st. c. 57
18 —— 2d. c. 38
24 —— 2d. c. 43
30 —— 2d. c. 22
24 —— 3d. c. 27		Relative to Carts and other Carriages in the Metropolis, [596]
21 Geo. 3d. c. 57, relative to Bullock-hunting, [597]
26 Geo. 3d. c. 71, as to Slaughtering Horses, [104], n.

Adultery, not in the Criminal Code, [35]
Advertising Bill-discounters and Money lenders to be regulated, [118], [119]
Alehouses, a great source of Crimes and Nuisances when ill-regulated, [85], [311], &c. [324], &c.
In 5000 Alehouses within the Bills of Mortality upwards of £3,300,000 a year spent in Beer, Spirits, &c., [327]
Profligate Characters entrusted with Licences a source of much mischief, [325], [326]
Alfred, His Laws relative to Murder, [44]
Alton's Liquid Test to detect counterfeit Gold and Silver Coin, [180]
Ancestors. Their Laws had an immediate reference to the prevention of Crimes, [3]
Anecdotes—Of an American Vessel plundered in the Thames in an extraordinary manner, [219]
—— of a Guinea Vessel plundered, ibid.
—— of the plunder and imposition on a Canada Merchant, [229]
—— of an Officer of Justice, who discovered an instance of pillage in one of the dock-yards, [283]
—— Respecting the Lottery, the astonishing number of persons supported by fraudulent Insurances, [156], n.
—— of the Jews in London, the extraordinary depravity of the lowest orders, [148]-[150]
—— of the different Classes of Cheats, [130]
—— of a Robbery in the Drawing-room at St. James's, [127]
—— of a Female Money-lender to Barrow Women, ibid.
—— of a Fortune-teller, [129]
—— of a Police Officer watching the house of a Receiver of Stolen Goods, [306], n.
—— of a Jew who had committed a Rape, [431], n.
—— of Sir Matthew Hale, [432], n.
—— of the Justices of Chester, a singular circumstance, [52], [53]
—— of a respectable Magistrate of the City, [513], n.
—— of Monsieur De Sartine Minister of the Police of Paris, an extraordinary circumstance, [525]-[530]
—— of the Emperor Joseph the Second, [527], [528], [529]
Apprentices corrupted by Receivers of Stolen Goods, &c., [12]
—— harboured in Public-houses, in Clubs for purposes of lewdness and debauchery, [315], n.
—— Their immoral education, one cause of the origin of Crimes, [314]-[317]
—— Neglect of superior Tradesmen in boarding Apprentices out of their houses, [316], [317], n.
Arrests for Felony, four modes practised, [388]
—— deficiency in the Law protecting Lottery vagrants and others from being arrested on Sundays, [390]
Arson, punished capitally, [56]
Asylums, an establishment recommended for discharged Convicts, [99], [100]
—— for the Indigent in the Metropolis, [572]
—— for Sick, Lame, and Diseased, [573]
Athelstan's Laws relating to Death, [51]
Athenian Laws relative to Murder, [43]
Auctioneers called diurnal, with Puffers, [117]