Past Crimes. Archaeological and Historical Evidence for Ancient Misdeeds
PAST CRIMES and another thirteen around the skeleton that pinned down her clothing. The woman was buried without a coffin or shr ...
also most often committed at weekends–a combination of getting paid on Friday, drinking over the weekend, and having to spend mo ...
PAST CRIMES in 1373; she had kidnapped and disguised the young daughter of a London grocer, John Oxwyke, to use as a foil for be ...
to thirty criminals at a time were left hanging from the gallows there, and then afterwards just tossed into small pits. In medi ...
CHAPTER 6 Early Modern Crime A time of change The period from the end of the Wars of the Roses in the late fifteenth century to ...
There were many beggars on the roads and a large number found their way into the towns; some of these turned to crime–organised ...
PAST CRIMES punishments were used, as were punishments designed to humiliate the wrongdoer. The stocks joined the pillory as a f ...
people. The actual cause of death is unknown, but the boy’s right wrist was broken, as if he had tried to protect himself agains ...
PAST CRIMES tenpenny piece of boxwood. Sheep stealing was a common crime, as was petty larceny. What is interesting to note is t ...
are some that suggest that a section of criminal activity was thought to be female dominated, such as stealing from lodgers, ste ...
PAST CRIMES themselves. Women also often acted as pawnbrokers and received stolen items, paying in cash, kind or drink for them. ...
condemned man down with a heavy oak slab on top of him. Stones were then piled on top of the slab until the prisoner was crushed ...
PAST CRIMES sentence to be invoked, and all other charges were treated as lesser offences. In 1604 however, James I revised the ...
October, the duchess was brought back to Westminster for a second church court hearing, and was charged with trying to bring abo ...
PAST CRIMES One of the accused witches, a woman known as Demdike, had long had the reputation of being a local healer or‘cunning ...
for several generations, and it seems that in fact this is simply a small abandoned farmhouse! The worst period of witchhunting ...
PAST CRIMES contents are usually urine, pins (often bent) and sometimes, pieces of cloth or hair. An example found during excava ...
form of the Iron Age goddess of childbirth. In a nearby pool, she found medieval pins, bits of fabric, leather and shoes, finger ...
PAST CRIMES England to beg for their release. She met the queen at Greenwich Palace and it seems the two women got along well to ...
Most of Kidd’s crew deserted him and went over to Culliford, leaving Kidd to return to the Caribbean with just thirteen men. Lea ...
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