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Whores and Highwaymen: Crime and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis - Crime History Series
Gregory J Durston
Whores and Highwaymen: Crime and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis - Crime History Series
Gregory J Durston
The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of the title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading justices, an upstart legal profession whose lower orders developed various ways to line their own pockets and magistrates and clerks who often preferred dealing with those cases which attracted fees.
672 pages, 8 page section
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 1, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781904380757 |
Publishers | Waterside Press |
Pages | 672 |
Dimensions | 166 × 237 × 41 mm · 1.17 kg |
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