Artful Dodgers

The early nineteenth century witnessed an increasing concern about the incidence of juvenile crime. Youthful delinquency was not new, but it was not until then that the foundations were laid for a juvenile justice system which would serve, with amendments, for the next century and more. Separate trial, separate penal provision, and an emphasis on reform rather than punishment were all enshrined in the new legislation.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-851-15894-5

Price:  £16.99

Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700-1400

From the time of Alfred the Great until beyond the end of the Middle Ages, bridges were vital to the rulers and people of England, but they were expensive and difficult to maintain. Who then was responsible for their upkeep? The answer to this question changes over the centuries, and the way in which it changes reveals much about law and power in medieval England.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83275-1

Price:  £45.00

Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer 1869

Superb reference books which illustrate how much the Victorian era changed everybody's lives through legislation. This set of five volumes, runs to approx 7,500 pages.    

Price:  £41.70

Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office VIII (1422-1485)

Over 500 documents concern the truly miscellaneous range of public complaints and disorders into which the king's government enquired: treason, murder, robbery and piracy, matters of inheritance and landholding, the decay of towns, buildings, roads and waterways, ecclesiastical negligence, even distinguishing levels of insanity.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15926-3

Price:  £120.00

Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland 1536-1784

Treason, Murder, Tumult, Piracy, Forgery, Incest, Adultery, Fornication, Blasphemy, Crimes against religion and the state, Witchcraft. Fascinating reading!    

Price:  £9.79

Chronicles of the Mayors & Sheriffs of London

Chronicles of the Mayors & Sheriffs of London 1188-1274 & The French Chronicle of London 1259-1343. A very useful resource for medieval historians and genealogists.    

Price:  £12.13

Circuit Journeys

Places well indexed and fully searchable. As well as details of the cases it gives you a good insight into the habits and thoughts of Judges in the early 1800s.    

Price:  £7.50

Croydon Inclosure 1797 - 1801

The book explains the Inclosures Act and details the results of the act in Croydon. See which section of land was originally owned and where people were moved.    

Price:  £12.13

Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office XIX [33-34 Henry III] (1249-1250)

This volume prints the full Latin text of the six large and well-preserved rolls of the Common Bench of Henry III for its sittings at Westminster in Michaelmas term 1249 and Hilary and Easter terms 1250. These were the first sittings of the court after the eyre circuits held between 1247 and 1249.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15901-0

Price:  £150.00

Curia Regis Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office XX [34-35 Henry III] [1250]

This volume completes the series initiated in 1922 to publish full texts of the plea rolls of the central courts of the English common law, the Bench and the Court Coram Rege.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83247-8

Price:  £150.00

Curia Regis Rolls XVIII [27 Henry III to 30 Henry III] (1243-45)

The thirteenth-century plea rolls of the king's courts are a historical source of the first importance for legal historians and for all researchers into the social, economic and political history of England.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15605-7

Price:  £150.00

Durham Quarter Sessions Rolls, 1471-1625

Rolls for 1471-1473 in Latin, thereafter in English. Preceded by an introduction to the Durham Quarter Session, the Durham Commissions of the Peace and the Business in Quarter Sessions. Accounts for the years 1471-1473, 1510-1512, 1555-1557, 1596-1618, 1622, 1624-1625.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44056-6

Price:  £25.00

English Society and the Prison

This social history analyses a period in which the modern prison experienced some of its most serious challenges both on a practical and philosophical level. These include the way in which prison was utilised to deal with poor, disaffected and political sections of society, and the failure to establish in the prison a legitimate means of punishment.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83017-7

Price:  £50.00

Index of Persons Named in Early Chancery Proceedings 1385-1467

An index of people named in Chancery Proceedings documents held by the Public Record Office.    

Price:  £15.11

Jail Journal

Described as 'a classic of Irish revolutionary writing', or a manual of Irish nationalist philosophy. John Mitchel's Jail Journal contains more than 500 pages and 37 sketches of members of the Young Ireland Movement. Fully searchable. An ideal research tool allowing easy access to Mitchel's opinions on events and individuals. The style of prose, honed through decades of editorial experience, is highlighted by an acerbic wit.     ISBN 1-84630-071-1

Price:  £16.90

Justice and the Poor in England

An account of the position of the poor in legal matters in England and Wales and a study in the inequality in the administration of justice where they are concerned, and of the remedies which have been attempted and suggested.    

Price:  £12.13

Kilkenny Grand Jury Presentments

A detailed record of the financial transactions and payments made to and from the Grand Jury of County Kilkenny between the Spring Assizes of 1825 and the Summer Assizes of 1832. As such this is a set of early accounts for the forerunner of Kilkenny county council. This fully searchable 380 page publication will fascinate anyone interested in the workings of local government in Kilkenny in the guise of the Kilkenny Grand Jury.     ISBN 1-84630-084-3

Price:  £13.50

Law, Litigants and the Legal Profession

British Legal History Conference papers on medieval and modern legal history and the history of the common law overseas.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-05091-5

Price:  £40.00

Lonsdale Documents

Letters, dating 1799-1804, of Rev. John Lonsdale concerning his efforts to secure a new lease of the Crown estate of Sunk Island in the River Humber in which he had acquired an interest by marriage, and letters to his wife Elizabeth while he resided in London at a critical stage in these negotiations. Also includes an account and history of Sunk Island and the survey of it made in 1797. Social history; legal history.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44007-8

Price:  £25.00

Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature and Practice

Medieval marriage has been widely discussed, and this book gives a brief and accessible overview of an important subject. It covers the entire medieval period, and engages with a wide range of primary sources, both legal and literary.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83102-0

Price:  £40.00

Newgate Calendar

Interesting memoirs of notorious characters that have been convicted of crimes in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Fully searchable and a really juicy read.    

Price:  £12.13

Public Order and Law Enforcement

The final phase in Angevin administrative advances in England was crucial in determining the shape and principal features of England's new judicial system. This study concentrates on the personnel of local justice and the wider administrative context to build up a composite picture of attitudes to public order and law enforcement through a systematic examination of the surviving legal records.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-851-15875-4

Price:  £55.00

Reports of Heraldic Cases in The Court of Chivalry

1623-1732. Transcripts from civil court cases of genealogical and heraldic interest from incredibly rare documents. There are many, many ordinary people here, from all parts of the country, all of them easy to find due to the superb index.    

Price:  £15.11

Royal Regulation of Loans and Sales in Medieval England

This book looks at laws prohibiting usury, forestalling and regrating and regulating prices in England during the reigns of the first three Edwards and Richard II (1272-1399).   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83022-1

Price:  £55.00

Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of Lincoln 1363-1398

The many commands which the crown addressed to bishops represent a rich source of information about the history of government, law, and lay society, as well as about the church itself. The writs collected in this volume touch on many aspects of life in the later fourteenth century, including tax gathering, political upheaval, property disputes, Lollardy, and foreign warfare.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-907-23958-1

Price:  £30.00

Rural Conflict, Crime and Protest: Herefordshire, 1800-1860

Rural Conflict, Crime and Protest makes a major contribution to the historiography of nineteenth century crime. The work presents a new analysis of several important and controversial themes: the concept of social crime, petty crime and protest in the English countryside between 1800 and 1860.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83018-4

Price:  £55.00

The British and their Laws in the Eighteenth Century

Law and legal institutions were of huge importance in the governance of Georgian society: legislation expanded the province of administrative authority out of all proportion, while the reach of the common law and its communal traditions of governance diminished, at least outside British North America.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83158-7

Price:  £55.00

The Church Courts of York 1660-1720: the Revival of Procedure

This is one of an on-going series of publications from the Borthwick Insitute for Archives, intended to provide insights into new research concerning the history of Yorkshire and the North of England.     ISBN 978-1-904497-19-6

Price:  £4.00

The Complete English Lawyer

Or Every Man his Own Lawyer. A fabulous reference book which covers all aspects of the law, taxes and legal processes at the time of its publication in 1820. Details of laws, taxes, and statutes that *all* of our ancestors were subject to and the penalties which they could expect to receive if those laws were broken. The IDEAL companion to 'The Complete Parish Officer'.    

Price:  £17.87

The Complete Parish Officer 1772

One of the most important resources that we have seen, and should be of great interest to family historians. Published in 1772 it was the handbook of the duties and responsibilities of the Parish Officer. Includes the duties of the overseers of the poor, the power in relieving, employing and settling, etc. of poor persons; the laws relating to the poor, and settlements, and the statutes concerning masters and servants.    

Price:  £15.11

The Court of York, 1400-1499 a handlist of the cause papers and an index to the archiepiscopal court books

One of the Borthwick Texts & Studies series. These volumes explore the Borthwick Institute's rich sources for the history of Yorkshire and the north of England.   pp.216.   ISBN 1-904497-03-9

Price:  £14.00

The Fourteenth-Century Sheriff

With the expansion of government during the later Middle Ages, royal authority was increasingly delegated to local officials, and the administrative requirements of the crown drew thousands of men into the business of local government, many of whom belonged to the gentry.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15933-1

Price:  £45.00

The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921

Fascinating Irish judicial history and biographical material. Two volumes (nearly 800 pages) detail the evolution of the Judicial Bench in Ireland, from the first known appointments by an English monarch to a judicial office in Ireland, until the last appointment by the English Government to a judicial office in Ireland in 1921.     ISBN 1-84630-074-6

Price:  £23.70

The Justice of the Peace & Parish Officer

The laws of the time and how they applied to our ancestors. Absolutely fascinating in all respects! Apprentices, bastardy, rights of settlement, transportation, vagrancy, servants, etc. - every possible subject and in great detail, organised in alphabetical order by subject. This is without doubt one of the most useful set of books that Archive CD Books have ever published on CD.    

Price:  £21.28

The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, Rector of Boldon

Edmund Tew's notebook is a remarkable if cryptic record of the troublesome relationships of local people in a rapidly developing area of North-East England.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44044-3

Price:  £40.00

The Medieval Court of Arches

The appellate court of the archbishop of Canterbury as metropolitan of the province of Canterbury [covering all of England south of the Humber and all of Wales] was the most important ecclesiastical court in medieval England; it sat in the church of St Mary le Bow in London, from whose Latin name [de arcubus] it took its popular name, the Court of Arches. This volume offers the first full-length study of the Court.     ISBN 978-0-907-23968-0

Price:  £25.00

The Records of the Admiral Court of York

This is one of an on-going series of publications from the Borthwick Insitute for Archives, intended to provide insights into new research concerning the history of Yorkshire and the North of England.   pp38   ISBN 0-900701-29-3

Price:  £4.00

Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West

The `violence' of life in the middle ages is nowadays both taken for granted and little understood. The essays in this collection all suggest or explore reasons why violent acts might have been perpetrated, and attempt to understand the social priorities which governed such acts. Broadly, the studies clarify issues relating to the creation of political identities and the establishment of social order, and cover matters of administration, religious ritual, and gender.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-851-15849-5

Price:  £19.99

York Civic Ordinances 1301

This is one of an on-going series of publications from the Borthwick Insitute for Archives, intended to provide insights into new research concerning the history of Yorkshire and the North of England.   pp 28   ISBN 0-900701-42-0

Price:  £4.00

Yorkshire Star Chamber Proceedings

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-902-12289-5

Price:  £24.00