LAW AND ORDER
NEW STOCKS AND
WHIPPING POST
In 1676 an order was given to levy a rate in Bednall
Green, Stepney, to pay Charles Morley,
constable, the cost of new stocks and a whipping post.
REQUEST FOR A WATCH
In 1702 a petition of several constables in Stepney
parish for an order for a watch.
KEEPING A DISORDERLY
HOUSE
In 1706 Anne
Buttery, of St. Dunstan Stepney
was charged with keeping a disorderly house
In 1708 Anne
Derrickson was indicted for
keeping a disorderly house but it was reported that she
had left her house in Wapping Stepney
MILE END NEW
TOWN:BETTER OFF WITHOUT JOHN BLOOM
In 1726 the inhabitants of Mile End New Town, Stepney
presented a petition asking that they did not want John Bloom discharged from Bridewell, because the
hamlet was better without him.
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
In 1778 John
Boulter prosecuted Joseph Lovett for assault. His bail was paid by James MacDonald of Shadwell, chandler and Henry Incles of Stepney, victualler.
In the February Robert
Forfer a lighterman of Shadwell
was charged with assaulting Robert Burton.
Bail was paid by William Watson,
cooper and William
Hartley, victualler, both of St
George in the East.
In February 1778 John Bess of
Wapping Street, St. George in the East, mariner was
charged with assault.
In April 1794 Alexander
Imlay of Chapell Street, New
Road, St. George in the East, gent., was charged with
assault.
In 1794 William
Turner, son of Mr. George Turner of Mile End, Stepney, gent. and freeholder,
petitioned against conviction for assault on John Smith and Stephen George.
In October 1799 Jane
Simmons and Margaret Sinclair, both of St George in the East were
prosecuted by Barnett
Samuel of the Precinct of St
Katherine Tower Hill, taylor, for assault and false
imprisonment.
In January 1827 at the Thames Police Office Hugh Bird, an excavator, 8 Stepney Causeway made a
charge against Richard
Hartley and Richard Brian(t) for assault.
PROSECUTIONS
In July 1778 several prosecutions took place.
Robert Taylor prosecuted Mark Robinson on
and his bail was paid by Samuel Osborn, of
Tower Hill a victualler and Nathaniel Bland of
St George in the East, gent. and these same gentlemen put
up bail when
John Humphrey prosecuted Mark Robinson at
the same time.
Elizabeth
Boulter prosecuted her husband
John. His bail was put up by John Boote, a
butcher and William
May, a waterman, both of St
George in the East
CHARGED WITH A
MISDEMEANOUR
In October 1778 Andrew
Robinson was charged with a
misdemeanor and his bail was put up by James Potts of Spitalfields and John Connor of St George in the East, both victuallers.
At the same Sessions Mary Robison,
(indicted by the name of Ann Robison) was
also charged with a misdemeanor. Her bail was put up by
the same James Potts and John Connor.
LOADING THE SCALES
In February 1827 at the Thames Police Office William Ferrett , foreman of the Leet Jury of Stepney Manor,
5 Mercers Place, Commercial Road and Thomas Moore, a member of the Leet Jury, of 35 Charles
Street, Commercial Road gave evidence. They had tried to
make an examination of weights and scales at David Saul's shop in Three Colt Street, Limehouse when
Joseph Penfold, Jonathon
Saul, John Rolph and David Saul had assaulted and obstructed
the leet jury.
KEEPING A COMMON BAWDY
HOUSE
In July 1848 at the Quarter Sessions an affidavit was
made by Richard
Feild of 58 King Street, St
Dunstans Stepney, gent accusing George J. Murray otherwise Bradley, his wife Ann, and others
for keeping common bawdy house: affidavit of prosecutor.
He asked that defendants could be taken into custody on
issue of warrants. In the September and October he again
presented affidavits against them.
CHARGE OF FELONY
In September 1848 and affidavit, accompanied by a medical
certificate, was made by Henry Hyams of 98
George Street, St. George in the East, a cap maker, who
was the prosecutor, explaining his absence from court for
reasons of ill health on 12 Sept when Jacob Sonstrom was to appear on a charge of felony.
All these and many
more records are held at the LONDON METROPOLITAN
ARCHIVES. The above details have been extracted from the
Access to Archives website at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/ This website is well worth a visit.
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