Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750 - J.M. Beattie
concern to the king’s whig opponents. Even if there had been some interest in strengthening the courts in their management of or ...
CHAPTER SEVEN The Revolution, Crime, and Punishment in London, 1690 – 1713 The system of criminal administration in late sevente ...
by then.^2 Petty larceny and even grand larcenies of small value only rarely appeared on the calendars of the London sessions of ...
Parliament and the criminal law: ideas and experiments Something in the order of forty bills concerned with central matters of c ...
316 The Revolution, Crime, and Punishment in London Table7.1.Selected parliamentary bills and statutes, 1690 – 1713 a A: Failed ...
responses not only to particular alarms in this period but also to underlying weaknesses of the criminal law that had been revea ...
involved the introduction of substantial rewards, guaranteed by statute, for evi- dence that would result in the conviction of p ...
Another apparent concession to defendants—the right to have their wit- nesses sworn in court, included in a statute of 1702 —was ...
century in which only the theft of cloth in the process of manufacture had been excluded from benefit of clergy (in 1670 ), a nu ...
proposed legislation that, on the surface, would have supplemented this en- couragement to the prosecution of highwaymen ‘by cha ...
a limited role when minor property crimes increased sharply; and, on the other, that the alternatives, particularly clergy and i ...
have been active in the parliaments ofWilliam III’s reign. Many of them were the kinds of backbenchers Joanna Innes has identifi ...
important pieces oflegislation enacted in the reigns ofWilliam and Mary and of Anne. The aldermen were well informed about parli ...
of the aldermen were also magistrates and that the more senior of them had served as lord mayor meant that a sizeable proportion ...
insufficient evidence to allow me to take this subject very far. It is likely that even the most violent political opponents amo ...
certainty.^28 But on matters of penal policy, if not on other central matters of day- to-day criminal administration, whig alder ...
Not all suggestions emanating from the City for new legislation depended on the grand jury or the Court of Aldermen. There were ...
Enough.^33 They were inspired directly by an intervention from the City of Lon- don, following the addition of several members t ...
who revealed the identity of two or more of their accomplices and gave the evi- dence that convicted them would be entitled to t ...
it was furthered by a presentment from the City grand jury at the following ses- sion in December. In their presentment, the jur ...
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