Date of Award
4-1992
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
Abstract
In this paper, I have endeavored to illustrate many of the forms of crime committed during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. I have also attempted to show the role of local people in the law. The workings of the common law of England have been simplified to outline the investigations, the trials, and the punishments received by felons and trespassers. Much of my research came from original manuscripts. Therefore, I have retained the original spellings, word order, and phrases, neither correcting nor modernizing the words, word order, or phrases, of the quotations and excerpts from those original manuscripts.
Recommended Citation
Swinden, Cara, "Crime and the common law in England, 1580-1640" (1992). Honors Theses. 769.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/769