Publisher's Synopsis
A new work on Crime and Punishment in East Anglia (and other parts of Britain) during the eighteenth century. It was a time of highwaymen, footpads and desperate petty offenders accompanied by draconian penalties, extremes of wealth and poverty, corruption, developing laws, and rough and emerging forms of justice?-?often at a price. The contents include justices of the peace, policing, crimes, courts and judicial personnel as well as such matters as summary trial and disposal, jury trial, execution (and reprieve), a variety of offences including murder (or other homicides), violence and sexual offences, smuggling, poaching, property crimes, riots and disturbances.
