Policing North Mymms before ‘the police’
Early law and order in North Mymms Two North Mymms men were transported to Australia for stealing lead from the roof of the parish church Sketch of St Mary's in the 1840s by Buckler from the Images of North Mymms collection Courtesy of Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies In 1784 two North Mymms men, Robert Usher and James Day, were sent to the gallows for stealing a horse. Five years later Thomas Rumbold and Thomas Pateman were transported to Australia for stealing lead from the roof of North Mymms church. Soon after, labourers John Halsey and John Day were whipped for stealing a piece of bacon. Such were the punishments handed out for crimes committed in North Mymms in the 18th century.