Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
jury are today measured in days and weeks, if not months, a trial in 1700 would be measured in minutes, only occasionally in hou ...
all the right to have their guilt or innocence determined by their peers. The French observer Henri Misson made it a point after ...
arraigned in batches. They were brought before the bench in groups to have the substance of the charge against each of them read ...
half-starved when they were committed, they would be when they were herded into court on the first morning; and they were oblige ...
trials for high treason, which ‘are generally managed for the Crown with greater Skill and Zeal than ordinary Prosecutions’, and ...
jury of twelve men had to be chosen from another panel of sixty summoned to attend on the first morning. Three juries thus had t ...
The law governing eligibility for jury service was such that the sheriffs’ offi- cers, who called the juries, had a large number ...
sessions and assizes in the rest of the country,^20 but the degree of repetition may have been even higher in London than elsewh ...
evidence about the wealth and occupations of a considerable proportion of the jurors who served in the City. The returns on thes ...
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The evidence of the tax categories and occupations of the jurors who served in 1692 is confirmed by the more general evidence of ...
make little distinction between office holding and jury service, and who may well have regarded a role in the drama at the Old B ...
century. The more common practice was the one they followed for the rest of that session. After those opening cases in December ...
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