Middlesex County Records, Vol. III - Editor: Jeaffreson, John Cordy

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Résumé :
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Sommaire:
Executions, thefts, feuds, and forbidden worship: the raw life of seventeenth-century Middlesex is preserved here in the stark language of the courts. Every entry breathes a story. Edited by John Cordy Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, Vol. III gathers the official records of Middlesex County during the Charles I Restoration era, presenting early modern court records of indictments, recognizances, coroners inquests post mortem, orders, memoranda, and the striking certificates of conventicle convictions Charles II. For anyone curious about early modern London crime, these records of Middlesex County are where the archive opens and the voices of clerks, jurors, and accused begin to speak again. Drawn from primary source legal documents, this carefully arranged volume offers an indispensable indictments and recognizances index, alongside detailed entries that illuminate everyday life in Middlesex England 17th century: neighbours bound over to keep the peace, juries viewing bodies, dissenters punished for unauthorised worship. It is both a rich resource for legal historians and an exacting reference for genealogical research, anchoring family names, places, and occupations in time. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, it stands as a cornerstone of any serious English legal history collection while remaining accessible to general readers and classic-book collectors drawn to the texture of the past....