Crime in England

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

• Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: Crime and the Historian; 1. Criminal Courts and Procedure at Common Law 1550-1800 2. The Nature and Incidence of Crime in England 1559-1625: A Preliminary Survey 3. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stewart Essex 4. Crime and Delinquency in an Essex Parish 1600-1640 5. Communities and Courts: Law and Disorder in Early-Seventeenth-Century Wiltshire 6. Quarter Sessions Appearances and their Background: A Seventeenth-Century Regional Study 7. Crime and the Courts in Surrey 1736-1753 8. Infanticide in the Eighteenth Century 9. The Game Laws in Wiltshire 1750-1800 10. Finding Solace in Eighteenth-Century Newgate 11. The Ordinary of Newgate and His Account; Crime and Criminal Justice: A Critical Bibliography; Notes; Index