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 verra qu'elle vient de l'impunité des crimes et non pas de la modération des 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
CONTENTS
| 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] |