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Legal history, including laws and courts in general. In future we will have pages for specific courts.
Basic data
| Subclass of: | Subject heading |
|---|---|
| Wikidata ID: |
Subclasses
| Description | |
|---|---|
| Crime | Crime, criminals and punishments. |
| Prisons and prisoners | Any kind of prisons, and people imprisoned for any reason. May have more specific subheadings. |
| Witchcraft | Witches and magic, including beliefs, practices, laws and punishments. |
Query for sources
| Description | |
|---|---|
| Adair - Waller's Court Martial Papers (JSAHR, 1966) | John Adair, 'The Court Martial Papers of Sir William Waller's Army, 1644', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 44/180 (1966), pp. 205-226. |
| Bath - Violence (thesis, 2001) | Joanna Bath, Violence and violent crime in the North East, c. 1650-1720 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2001). |
| Bennett - Enforcing the Law (thesis, 1987) | Ronan A. H. Bennett, Enforcing the law in revolutionary England: Yorkshire, c.1640-c.1660 (Ph.D. thesis, King's College London, 1987). |
| Bishai - Writing the Criminalized Body (thesis, 2005) | Nadia Bishai, Writing the criminalized body: the body in the construction of female subjectivity in English womens writing c.1540-1640 (Ph.D. thesis, Middlesex University, 2005). |
| Cust - Rutland Quarrel (Midland History, 2010) | Richard Cust, 'A Rutland Quarrel, the Court of Chivalry and the Irish Peerage during Charles I's Personal Rule', Midland History 35/2 (2010), pp. 149-173. |
| DesBrisay - Authority and Discipline in Aberdeen (thesis, 1989) | Gordon Russell DesBrisay, Authority and discipline in Aberdeen, 1650-1700 (Ph.D. thesis, University of St Andrews, 1989). |
| Gammon - Ravishment and Ruin (thesis, 2000) | J. D. Gammon, Ravishment and ruin: the construction of stories of sexual violence in England, c.1640-1820 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Essex, 2000). |
| Gilbert - Magistracy and Ministry (Midland History, 1998) | C. D. Gilbert, 'Magistracy and Ministry in Cromwellian England: The Case of King's Norton, Worcestershire', Midland History 23/1 (1998), pp. 71-83. |
| Gill - Ship Money (thesis, 1990) | Alison Ann McKay Gill, Ship money during the personal rule of Charles I: politics, ideology and the law 1634-1640 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Sheffield, 1990). |
| Goto - Grand Jury (thesis, 2008) | H. Goto, The grand jury in seventeenth century England, with special reference to the North Riding of Yorkshire (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008). |
| Gowing - Women, Sex and Honour (thesis, 1993) | Laura Gowing, Women, sex and honour: the London church courts, 1572-1640 (Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1993). |
| Hitchcock - Vagabond (thesis, 2012) | David J. Hitchcock, The experience and construction of the vagabond in England, 1650-1750 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2012). |
| Hitchman - Legal Pamphlets (thesis, 2017) | Alexander Hitchman, They themselves will be the Judges what commands are lawfull: legal pamphlets and political mobilisation in the early 1640s (Ph.D. thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017). |
| Ingram - Ecclesiastical Justice (thesis, 1976) | M. J. Ingram, Ecclesiastical Justice in Wiltshire 1600-1640, with Special Reference to Cases Concerning Sex and Marriage (Ph.D. thesis, University of Oxford, 1976). |
| Johnson - Crime and Distress (thesis, 1994) | Patricia Ann Johnson, A study of aspects of crime and distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire (Ph.D. thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 1994). |
| Kaiser - Masters of Requests (thesis, 1977) | C. R. E. Kaiser, The masters of requests: an extraordinary judicial company in an age of centralization (1589-1648) (Ph.D. thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1977). |
| Knight - Litigants (thesis, 1990) | Marcus Knight, Litigants and litigation in the seventeenth century Palatinate of Durham (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990). |
| Lees - Gender and Crime (thesis, 1999) | Linda Jane Lees, Thou art a verie baggadge: gender and crime in seventeenth-century Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire (Ph.D. thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 1999). |
| Markham - Law and Literature (thesis, 1996) | Simon Markham, Studies in law and literature, 1580-1652 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Oxford, 1996). |
| Marshall - Verbal Abuse (thesis, 2010) | Catherine Anne Marshall, Verbal abuse in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England: the cultural significance of scolding and slander (Ph.D. thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010). |
| McMullan - Professional Crime (thesis, 1980) | J. L. McMullan, Aspects of professional crime and criminal organization in sixteenth and seventeenth century London: a sociological analysis (Ph.D. thesis, London School of Economics, 1980). |
| Orr - Sovereignty (thesis, 1998) | Alan Orr, Sovereignty, state and the law of treason in England, 1641-1649 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998). |
| Palmer - Military, Law and Public Order (JSAHR, 1978) | Stanley H. Palmer, 'The Military, the Law, and Public Order in England, 1650-1850', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 56/228 (1978), pp. 198-214. |
| Pointon - Civil Disorder (thesis, 1991) | T. J. Pointon, The language of the unheard: civil disorder in Staffordshire 1640-1842 (Ph.D. thesis, Keele University, 1991). |
| Prest - Inns of Court (thesis, 1965) | Wilfrid R. Prest, Some aspects of the Inns of Court, 1590-1640 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Oxford, 1965). |
| Roslak - John Selden (thesis, 1999) | Oleg M. Roslak, John Selden and the laws of England: jurisprudence and constitutional theory, 1584-1654 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999). |
| Serjeantson - Testimony, Authority and Proof (thesis, 1998) | Richard William Serjeantson, Testimony, authority and proof in seventeenth-century England (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998). |
| Spraggs - Rogues and Vagabonds (thesis, 1980) | G. M. Spraggs, Rogues and vagabonds in English literature: 1552-1642 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 1980). |
| St. John-Smith - Judiciary (thesis, 2016) | Christopher St. John-Smith, The judiciary and the political use and abuse of the law by the Caroline regime, 1625-1640 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Oxford, 2016). |
| Stone - Interpersonal Violence (thesis, 2000) | Claire Stone, The cultural significance of interpersonal violence, with special reference to seventeenth-century Worcestershire (Ph.D. thesis, University of Warwick, 2000). |
| Thomas - John Williams (thesis, 1974) | Geraint Wynn Thomas, Archbishop John Williams: politics and prerogative law, 1621-1642 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Oxford, 1974). |
| Volmer - Massacres (thesis, 2007) | Inga Volmer, A comparative study of massacres during the wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641-53 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007). |
| Wells - Common Law Reporting (thesis, 1994) | Elizabeth Wells, Common law reporting in England 1550-1650 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Oxford, 1994). |
| Xiang - Staffordshire Justices (thesis, 1996) | Rong Xiang, The Staffordshire justices and their sessions 1603-1642 (Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham, 1996). |
