CHAPTER VI.

EARLY POLICE (_continued_): ENGLAND.

Early Police in England--Edward I.'s Act--Elizabeth's Act for Westminster--Acts of George II. and George III.--State of London towards the End of the Eighteenth Century--Gambling and Lottery Offices--Robberies on the River Thames--Receivers--Coiners--The Fieldings as Magistrates--The Horse Patrol--Bow Street and its Runners: Townsend, Vickery, and others--Blood Money--Tyburn Tickets--Negotiations with Thieves to recover stolen Property--Sayer--George Ruthven--Serjeant Ballantine on the Bow Street Runners compared with modern Detectives.....219