ishment which he advocated, including a system of pecuniary fines for
various military offences, have all been since adopted in the army, and
are now in force. About the same time the late Sir Charles Rowan,
K.C.B., then Colonel Rowan, one of the Commissioners of the new
Metropolitan Police, offered Shipp an inspectorship in the Stepney
division, which was gladly accepted. Subsequently he received the
appointment of Superintendent of the Night Watch at Liverpool. There he
proved himself a most capable and efficient officer. So highly, indeed,
was he esteemed in the borough, that when he offered himself for the
mastership of the Liverpool Workhouse, early in the year 1833, he was
elected to the post by an overwhelming majority of votes. The
comfortable competency thus assured to him he did not live long to
enjoy. An attack of pleurisy, after a few days of acute suffering,
carried him off on February 27, 1834, at the age of fifty-two.

His "Memoirs," as already stated, first appeared in 1829. A reprint, by
the same publisher, appeared in 1840. Subsequently another edition, in
which the summary of the court-martial proceedings and some other matter
contained in the original edition were omitted, and a supplementary
chapter added, bringing down the narrative to the date of Shipp's death,
was issued by the late Mr. Tegg, publisher, 73, Cheapside, London, in
1843. The present volume is a reprint of the latter work, the text of
which has been reproduced in full, and, save as regards the correction
of some obvious typographical errors, without alteration. A very few
explanatory footnotes have been added, and some illustrations, from
authentic contemporary sources, have been introduced, which it is hoped
will lend additional interest to the story of the "Extraordinary
Military Career of John Shipp."

H. MANNERS CHICHESTER.

LONDON, 1890.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See the picture of East Anglian rural life given by the Rev. Dr.
Jessopp in _Nineteenth Century_ for May, 1882, under the title, "The
Arcady of our Grandfathers."

PREFACE.

In laying before the public a familiar and unreserved detail of the
incidents and adventures of my past life, I trust it will not for a
moment be supposed that I am actuated by vanity, or by a desire to make
an ostentatious display of my military services. That, in the course of
those services, I have exercised some degree of daring, to th