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Bow Street

Street in London, England, between Long Acre and Russell Street, the location of a famous police court. The work of the Bow Street magistrates formerly embraced executive functions which are now performed by the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police; the Bow Street Runners served writs and acted as detectives until 1829.

The first Bow Street magistrate was Sir Thomas de Veil, who, when an acting justice in 1735, lived in Bow Street, and the court owes its subsequent establishment to him. Henry Fielding, the novelist, was the next holder of the post.
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The address I cannot call to mind quite so correctly; but I am almost sure it was at some theatrical place in Bow Street, Covent Garden.
No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context
All the time he was jerking out these phrases he was stumping up and down the tavern on his crutch, slapping tables with his hand, and giving such a show of excitement as would have convinced an Old Bailey judge or a Bow Street runner.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
The Constables, and the Bow Street men from London - for, this happened in the days of the extinct red-waistcoated police - were about the house for a week or two, and did pretty much what I have heard and read of like authorities doing in other such cases.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
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