Sketch of the History of the High Constables of Edinburgh With Notes on the Early Watching, Cleaning, and Other Police Arrangements of the City Classic Reprint - Paperback

Excerpt from Sketch of the History of the High Constables of Edinburgh: With Notes on the Early Watching, Cleaning, and Other Police Arrangements of the City My Dear Sir, I now offer you my "Sketch of the History of the High Constables of Edinburgh." When, a few weeks after your election to the Moderatorship of the Society in the winter of 1862, I undertook to prepare this sketch, 1 had little idea of the nature or extent of the work which it involved. But an investigation of the records of the Town Council shewed, not only that the Constables were of considerably greater antiquity than was supposed, but were so largely associated with the watching, cleaning, and. other police arrangements of the City, that no sketch of their history would be worth offering which did not deal, somewhat in detail, with these arrangements. The materials for preparing such a sketch, however, had to be sought almost exclusively, so far as I am aware, in the voluminous records and other Mss. in the archives of the City; and to that task I have devoted those portions of my time that were not demanded by my official ditties. Taken up thus at intervals, and worked at frequently under considerable physical disadvantages, my sketch has assumed very much the form of notes, without any literary pretensions, and printed off sheet by sheet as prepared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.