London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800

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Kevin Siena, Venereal Diseas, Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards," 1600-1800 (Rochester, New York, 2004), pp. 135-80. ⇑ Poor rate, St Clement (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, B/203; Poor and highway rate, St George Conduit Street, Dover Street and Out wards (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, C/361; Poor and highway rate, St George Grosvenor Street and Brook Street wards (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, C/380; Poor, highway and scavenger rate, St Margaret Grand ward (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, E/504; Poor, highway and scavenger rate, St Margaret Absey ward (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, E/505; Poor, highway and scavenger rate, St John (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, E/506; Poor rate, St James (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, D/105; Poor rate, St Martin (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, F/584; Poor rate, St Mary (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, G/190; Poor rate, St Paul (1784), City of Westminster Archives Centre, H/112. To widen your name search, choose Metaphone searching from the drop down menu. You can make this choice separately for surnames and forenames. Selecting Metaphone searching widens your search to include names which sound like, but are not spelled the same as, the name you typed in the search box. This facility has been created using a Double Metaphone phonetic algorithm. Essentially Double Metaphone breaks up an individual name/word into two different versions of its component consonant sounds, and groups them into sound families. In a metaphone search, names with either a ch or sh in the same position in an otherwise similar name will both be returned regardless of how you spell the initial search term. The version of metaphone used here has been modified to reflect eighteenth-century transcription practices and the very different ways that names are spelled in comparison to other types of vocabulary. St Clement Danes, Examinations Book, 1792-1798, Westminster Archives Centre, Ms. B1191, LL ref: WCCDEP35825, Tagging Level: B Harvey, Charles; Green, Edmund and Corfield, Penelope. The Westminster Historical Database: Voters, Social Stucutre and Electroal Behaviour Bristol Academic Press, 1998. ISNB 0 9513762 5 x (book); 0 9513762 6 8 (CD-Rom).

Griffiths, Paul. Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City 1550-1660. Cambridge, 2008. London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about 18th-century London, Hindle, Steve. On the Parish?: The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England, c.1550-1750. Oxford, 2004.St Clement Danes, Examinations Book, 1742-1745, Westminster Archives Centre, Ms. B1170, LL ref: WCCDEP35818, Tagging Level: B For a discussion of the Bristol Corporation see Mary Fissell, Patients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Cambridge, 1991), ch. 4. ⇑ Surname (where blank in the original, occasionally inferred from related individuals, e.g. husbands). Just like watchmen, and for many of the same reasons, many householders chosen for the office of constable preferred not to serve, and instead paid a fine or hired substitutes. Although they were already present in the late seventeenth century, the practice of hiring substitutes, or deputies, became more common in the first half of the eighteenth century. By 1730, four out of every ten constables in the City of London were hired, many of whom engaged in repeated service, often holding the post for years, effectively become professional policemen. 4