Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Spelling, Citation and Abbreviation -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- 1. 'Vipers in the bosom of our Law': The Emergence of Perjury as a Common Law Offence -- 2. 'Hollow-hearted angels': Coins, Counterfeits and the Discourses of Treason -- 3. 'The Woman's Case put to the Lawyers': Miscarriage of Justice and the Case of Anne Greene -- 4. Pardon and Oblivion: Pardon, Benefit of Clergy, Peine Forte et Dure -- 5. 'England's rubidg': Mary Carleton and the Early Use of Transportation -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society
