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Markus Eder "At The Instigation of the Devil": Capital Punishment and the Assize in the early modern England, 1670-1730

Social Science
English
52099 Words
Ages 16 and up
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“Acting at the instigation of the devil” was the designation used in english indictments of the early modern period for those heavy criminals as murderers, high traitors, rapists, robbers and burglars who, on conviction, would have faced capital punishment. Although criminals of the above- mentioned kind have at all times haunted the immagination of society , up to now, no sytematical and representative analysis of the subject of capital punishment in the pre- 1718 period, the date of the passage of the so called Transportation Act, has been published. Drawing on the archival resources of one of England`s largest and most heavily populated Assize, the so called Western Circuit, Markus Eder, author of the well received Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Years` War, 1755-1763 (Aldershot, 2004), unfolds before the reader`s eyes the story of the incidence, nature and punishment of capital crimes during the period 1670-1730. What emerges is the most fully and most representative study on the nature and handling of capital crime in early Modern England. [more]

Keywords: Capital Punishment, Assize, early modern England, Western Circuit, Monmouth rebellion, transportation act, death penalty, seventeenth century, eighteenth century

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ruth (fiscle part-4)

Religion
English
161177 Words
Ages 18 and up
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There Is An Assize-Town In one Of The Eastern Counties Which Was Much Distinguished by The Tudor Sovereigns, And, In consequence Of Their Favour And Protection, Attained a Degree Of Importance That Surprises The Modern Traveller. A Hundred years Ago Its Appearance Was That Of Picturesque Grandeur. The Old Houses, Which Were The Temporary Residences Of Such Of The County Families As Contented themselves With The Gaieties Of A Provincial Town, Crowded the Streets, And Gave Them The Irregular But Noble Appearance Yet To Be Seen In the Cities Of Belgium. [more]

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ruth

Short Story
English
163603 Words
Ages 18 and up
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There Is An Assize-Town In one Of The Eastern Counties Which Was Much Distinguished by The Tudor Sovereigns, And, In consequence Of Their Favour And Protection, Attained a Degree Of Importance That Surprises The Modern Traveller. A Hundred years Ago Its Appearance Was That Of Picturesque Grandeur. The Old Houses, Which Were The Temporary Residences Of Such Of The County-Families As Contented themselves With The Gaieties Of A Provincial Town, Crowded the Streets And Gave Them The Irregular But Noble Appearance Yet To Be Seen In the Cities Of Belgium. The Sides Of The Streets Had A Quaint Richness, From The Effect Of The Gables, And The Stacks Of Chimneys Which Cut Against The Blue Sky Above; While, If The Eye Fell Lower Down, The Attention Was Arrested by All Kinds Of Projections In the Shape Of Balcony And Oriel; And It Was Amusing to See The Infinite Variety Of Windows That Had Been Crammed Into The Walls Long Before Mr Pitt'S Days Of Taxation. [more]

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