
Author: legalhistorymiscellany


Decriminalizing Heresy

Women’s Executions in Early Modern England

Christened Cockerels and Heretical Hill-Diggers: Treasure Trove in Medieval England

Gaol and Gaol-breaking in Early Modern Ireland

Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer: Marriage Breakdown and Women’s Rights in Seventeenth-Century England

Exits, Entries and the Allure of the Runaway Nun

Murder in Sanctuary: Liberty Jurisdictions and the Prosecution of Felony in Early Tudor England

The Ownership of Swans in English History: Does the Queen Own all the Swans?

King Henry of Scotland’s Pardon of the Earl of Argyll, March 1566

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Marriage in Late Medieval England and the Low Countries

Perjury, Wager of Law, and Debt in the Elizabethan Star Chamber

From Blue Lobsters to Friendly Giants: Visual Representations of the Police, c.1840–1880

Apostasy, Sanctuary, and Spin: The Canons of Waltham and Sanctuary at St. Martin le Grand, 1430

Treason in Shropshire in the Early Fifteenth Century: The Case of Sir Richard Lacon

Evil May Day, 1517: Prosecuting Anti-Immigrant Rioters in Tudor London
