| CHAP. | | PAGE |
| I. | Anglo-Saxon and Norman Police | [1] |
| II. | Watch and Ward | [21] |
| III. | Justice and Constable | [43] |
| IV. | Forest Police and Police in the Fifteenth Century | [60] |
| V. | Commercial Police and Police under the Tudors | [82] |
| VI. | Ecclesiastical Police and Police under James I. | [99] |
| VII. | Military Police and Police under Charles II. | [124] |
| VIII. | Bow Street Police and Magisterial Reform | [155] |
| IX. | Parochial Police of the Eighteenth Century | [176] |
| X. | Police at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century | [196] |
| XI. | Pioneer Reformers | [217] |
| XII. | "The New Police" | [228] |
| XIII. | "Public Opposition to the "New Police"" | [245] |
| XIV. | Police Reform in Boroughs | [262] |
| XV. | Police Reform in Counties | [279] |
| XVI. | Co-operative Police and the Suppression of Riots | [309] |
| XVII. | Police Statistics and Penology | [335] |
| XVIII. | Detective Police and the Right of Public Meeting | [366] |
| XIX. | Conclusion | [390] |