Crime in Early Modern England, 1550-1750

accused Alan Macfarlane archives areas argued attitudes behaviour capital cent changes church courts common constable contemporary court records crime and punishment crime in early Crime in England criminal law delinquency demonstrate E. P. Thompson early eighteenth century early modern England early modern period Elizabethan English Essex evidence example execution felony forms game laws gaol gentry historian history of crime homicide house of correction important indictments infanticide involved J. A. Sharpe J. H. Plumb J. S. Cockburn John justice labour late seventeenth law and order law enforcement least leet London manorial courts ment murder obviously parish patterns of crime poachers poaching poor popular present problem property offences prosecution quarter sessions Record Office regulatory offences riot serious crime seventeenth century social crime social history society Staffordshire Star Chamber statutes Stuart suggest theft tion Tudor Tyburn vagrants village violence William Lambarde witchcraft Wrightson