The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, rector of Boldon, ed. Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton
One of the more peculiar forms of documentation created by the English criminal justice and local administrative systems of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the justice’s notebook. The justices of the peace, those local gentry and other notables upon whose efforts as amateur administrat...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | One of the more peculiar forms of documentation created by the English criminal justice and local administrative systems of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was the justice’s notebook. The justices of the peace, those local gentry and other notables upon whose efforts as amateur administrators so much depended, were encouraged to keep notebooks in which they would record their activities. A few of these notebooks survive, and the best of them provide useful and at times fascinating i... |
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