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Book Jacks  Knaves and Vagabonds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gregory J Durston
  • Publisher : Waterside Press
  • Release : 2020-09-02
  • ISBN : 1909976768
  • Pages : 739 pages

Download or read book Jacks Knaves and Vagabonds written by Gregory J Durston and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this welcome addition to his Crime History Series, Gregory Durston points to the lack of design and short-term expediency that typified Tudor law and order. But he also detects an emergent criminal justice system amidst royal patronage, protection, and the influence of wealthy magnates. Students of English history will have heard how benefit of clergy and the ‘neck verse’ might avoid a hanging, but what of other stratagems such as down-valuing stolen goods, cruentation, chance medley, pious perjury or John at Death (a non-existent culprit blamed by the accused and treated by juries as real); all devices used to mitigate the all-pervading death-for-felony rule. Together with other artifices deployed by courts to circumvent black-letter law the author also describes how poor, marginalised and illiterate citizens were those most likely to suffer unfairness, injustice and draconian punishment. He also describes the political intrigue and widescale corruption that were symptomatic of the era, alongside such diverse aspects as forfeiture of property, evidential ploys, the rise of the highwayman, religious persecution, witchcraft and infanticide crazes. At a time of shifting allegiances?—?and as Crown, church, judges, magistrates and officials wrestled over jurisdiction, central or local control, ‘ungodly customs’, laws of convenience or malleable definitions?—?never perhaps were facts or law so expertly engineered to justify or defend often curious outcomes. Part of Durston’s Crime History Series. Covers the entire Tudor era. Based on first-hand historical research. Fully referenced to hundreds of sources.

Book A History of English Assizes 1558 1714

Download or read book A History of English Assizes 1558 1714 written by J. S. Cockburn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972-09-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical background and the operations of the court.

Book Launceston  past and present

Download or read book Launceston past and present written by sir Alfred Farthing Robbins and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Western Antiquary

Download or read book The Western Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury,'" Mar. 1881-May 1884.

Book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries

Download or read book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of the Axes

Download or read book The Book of the Axes written by George Philip Rigney Pulman and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The book of the Axe

Download or read book The book of the Axe written by George Philip R. Pulman and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries

Download or read book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries written by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries

Download or read book Gloucestershire Notes and Queries written by Beaver Henry Blacker and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gloucestershire notes and queries  ed  by B H  Blacker

Download or read book Gloucestershire notes and queries ed by B H Blacker written by Beaver Henry Blacker and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Books

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wigan (England). Free Public Library. Reference Dept
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Catalogue of Books written by Wigan (England). Free Public Library. Reference Dept and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Sussex Archaeologists

Download or read book Two Sussex Archaeologists written by Henry Campkin and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: