Justice in Eighteenth-Century Hackney: The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris and the Hackney Petty Sessions Book
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The cases overseen by justices such as Henry Norris reveal fascinating details of the then rural idyll of Hackney. What these entries show us more clearly than anything else, is that for Norris, and probably also for most of his colleagues on the bench, there really was one law for the rich and another for the poor. The wording of some of the entries reveal a great deal about the prejudices and social values shared by the justices of the time...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0900952288
ISBN13:9780900952289
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:Lincoln Record Society
Length:285 Pages
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