Law, Crime and English Society, 1660–1830

1. Introduction Norma Landau; Part I. Law: 2. Dread of the Crown Office: the magistracy and King's Bench 1740–1800 Douglas Hay; 3. The trading justice's trade Norma Landau; 4. Impressment and the law in eighteenth-century Britain Nicholas Rogers; Part II. Crime: 5. 'Press gangs are better magistrates than the Middlesex justices.' Young offenders, press gangs and prosecution strategies in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England Peter King; 6. Making the 'bloody code'? Forgery legislation in eighteenth-century England Randall McGowen; 7. Mapping the criminal law: Blackstone and the categories of English jurisprudence David Lieberman; Part III. Society: 8. After Somerset: Mansfield, slavery and the law in England, 1772–1830 Ruth Paley; 9. Religion and the law: evidence, proof and 'matter of fact' 1660–1700 Barbara Shapiro; 10. The press and public apologies in eighteenth-century London Donna Andrew; 11. Origins of the factory acts: the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802 Joanna Innes.