Crime and the law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. This book attempts to reach further than most conventional treatments of the subject to explore the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution and to recover their hidden social meanings. It also examines in detail the crimes of witchcraft coining--counterfeiting and coin-clipping--and murder in order to reveal new and important insights into how the thinking of ordinary people was transformed between 1550 and 1750.
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