An ungovernable people : the English and their law in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / edited by John Brewer and John Styles.

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New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 1980.
Record id:
11128
Subject:
Law -- History.
Contents:
1. Two concepts of order: justices, constables and jurymen in the seventeenth-century England
2. Grain riots and popular attitudes to the law: Maldon and the crisis of 1629
3. 'A set of ungovernable people': the Kingswood colliers in the eighteenth century
4. The Wilkites and the law, 1763-74: a study of radical notions of governance
5. 'Our traitorous money makers": the Yorkshire coiners and the law, 1760-83
6. The King's Bench prison in the later eighteenth century: law, authority and order in a London debtors' prison.
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400 p.