316 The Revolution, Crime, and Punishment in London
Table7.1.Selected parliamentary bills and statutes, 1690 – 1713 aA: Failed bills
Title/purpose Reference
Bill for the better securing the highways from robbers JHC, 10 , 455 ( 1690 )
Bill to change the punishment of highway robbery from capital JHC, 10 , 806 ( 1693 )
punishment to hard labour
Committee to prepare bill for apprehending highwaymen JHC, 11 , 5 ( 1693 )
and punishing them and for making hues and cries more
effectual
Same purpose JHC, 11 , 47 ( 1694 )
Select committee to consider all the laws touching highway JHC, 11 , 218 ( 1695 )
robbery and hues and cries how to make them more effectual
Bill for regulating and emending the laws concerning robberies JHC, 12 , 47 ( 1698 )
on the highways and hues and cries
Committee to consider methods for preventing felonies JHC, 12 , 74 ( 1698 )
and robberies
Bill to substitute transportation for capital punishment for JHC, 13 , 777 ( 1702 )
convicted felons
Bill to establish hard labour for clergied offenders JHC, 14 , 463 ( 1704 )
Same purpose JHL, 18 , 184 ( 1706 )
B: Statutes
Title/purpose Number
Robbery or house-breaking in daytime excluded from 3 & 4 Wm & Mary, c 9 ( 1691 )
clergy (s. 1 ); receivers to be accessories to felony (s. 4 );
theft from lodgings a felony (s. 5 ); clergy extended to
women on same terms as men (s. 6 )
To encourage the apprehending of highwaymen: 4 & 5 Wm & Mary, c 8 ( 1692 )
£ 40 reward for conviction of highwayman (s. 2 );
robbers convicting two or more accomplices to be
pardoned (s. 7 )
To prevent counterfeiting and clipping the coin: 6 Wm III, c 17 ( 1695 )
£ 40 reward for conviction of a coiner (s. 9 );
clippers or conterfeiters convicting two accomplices
to be pardoned (s. 12 )
Treason act: accused to be tried only on the oath of 7 & 8 Wm III, c 3 ( 1696 )
two witnesses (s. 4 ), to have a copy of the indictment
before trial, to make full defence by counsel (s. 1 ),
and to have right to compel witnesses (s. 7 )
To prevent counterfeiting. Making coining 8 & 9 Wm III, c 26 ( 1697 )
instruments (s. 1 ), marking edges of counterfeit coin (s. 3 ),
colouring or gilding counterfeit coin (s. 4 ) all to be
high treason