Whores And Highwaymen: Crime And Justice In The Eighteenth-Century Metropolis - 9781904380757

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.

• | By (Author): Gregory J. Durston
• | Publisher: Waterside Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2012
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 672 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1904380751
• | ISBN-13: 9781904380757