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Author Hay, Douglas, author

Title Albion's fatal tree : crime and society in eighteenth-century England / Douglas Hay and others.....
Published Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1977
©1975

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 W'PONDS  364.941 Alb  DUE 17-05-24
Description 352 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, 2 maps, portraits ; 21 cm
Series Peregrine books
Peregrine books.
Contents 1. Property, authority and the criminal law -- 2. The Tyburn Riot against the surgeons -- 3. Sussex sumugglers -- 4. Wrecking and coastal plunder -- 5. Poaching the Game Laws on Cannock Chase -- 6. The crime of anonymity -- Appendix. A sampler of letters
Notes Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1976
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index
Notes Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1975
Subject Crime -- England -- History.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056808
Author Hay, Douglas.
ISBN 0140551301 (paperback)