The Justice and the Mare′s Ale: Law and Disorder in Seventeenth Century England

by Alan Macfarlane (Author)

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  Paperback
  1982

  $28.87

  A historically reconstructed detective story, The Justice and the Mare's Ale is a case study brought alive by documents, through which readers can explore the way in which law worked in practice in late - seventeenth century northern England and the ways in which criminal law and ordinary life intersected during that period.