London watch

The city's watch, which wants names and locations of the Afflicted, keeps watch routes and captains, and increasingly argues with priests and physicians over breach cases.

Watchmen hired by wards, parishes, companies, committees or wealthy interests to keep ordinary order, walk lamps, call the hour and challenge strangers.

Named with it

• Captain Judith Rooke · watch instructions for difficult wards
• Watch-Captain Hugh Penrose
• Hugh Penrose · watch captain
• Beadle Thomas Rooke of Bell Lantern Ward

Ties

• hired by ward councils and parishes

At the table

Quality varies wildly; they know the street better than their betters but must stand aside for Crown business. Some wards fear their own watch more than outsiders. Wiser watch captains have stopped laughing at undercity tales; a watch captain may be the first face of a larger pressure for a company.