A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their PreventionColquhoun, Patrick
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Colquhoun, Patrick
Crime -- England -- London; Police -- England -- London
Smuggling Run Goods, and other Frauds relative to the Excise
and Customs
Keeping Bawdy Houses and other Disorderly Houses
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4. IDLE and Disorderly Persons _described by the Act of the
17th Geo. II. cap. 5. and subsequent Acts_; punishable with
one Month's Imprisonment--_namely_,
1. Persons threatening to run away and leave their wives and
children on the Parish
2. Persons who tipple in Ale Houses, and neglect their
Families, &c. as described in the 3d Geo. III. cap. 45
3. Persons who shall unlawfully return to the Parish or
place from which they have been legally removed, without
bringing a Certificate
4. Persons, who not having wherewithal to maintain
themselves, live idly without employment, and refuse to work
for the usual Wages
5. Persons begging in the streets, highways, &c.
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5th. ROGUES and VAGABONDS _described by the said Act of the
17th Geo. II. cap. 5. and subsequent Acts_; punishable by
Six Months' Imprisonment--namely,
1. Persons going about as Patent Gatherers or Gatherers of
Alms, under pretence of Loss by Fire, or other casualty.
2. Fencers, Bearwards, Strolling Players of Interludes, or
other Entertainments
3. Minstrels, (except those licensed by the Lord Dutton in
Cheshire)
4. Persons pretending to be, and wandering in the habit of,
Gypseys
5. Fortune-Tellers, pretending Skill in Physiognomy,
Palmistry, &c. or using any subtle craft to deceive and
impose on others
6. Persons playing or betting at any unlawful Games or Plays
7. Persons who run away, and leave their Wives and Children
upon the Parish
8. Petty Chapmen and Pedlars wandering abroad without a
Licence
9. Persons wandering abroad, and lodging in Ale-Houses,
Out-Houses, or the open Air, and not giving a good account
of themselves
10. Persons wandering abroad, and pretending to be Soldiers
or Sailors, without proper Certificates from their Officers,
or Testimonials from Magistrates
11. Persons wandering abroad, pretending to go to work in
Harvest, without a proper Certificate from the Parish
12. Persons having Implements of House-breaking or Offensive
Weapons, with a Felonious intent
13. Persons concerned in illegal Lottery Transactions, as
described in the Lottery Acts, 27th, 33d, 34th, and 35th
Geo. III.
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6th. INCORRIGIBLE ROGUES, _punishable with Two Years'
Imprisonment and Whipping, or Transportation for Seven
Years, if they break out of Prison--namely_,
1. Persons stiled End-Gatherers, buying, collecting, or
receiving Ends of Yarn in the Woollen Branch, against the
stat. 13 Geo. I. cap. 23.
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