Contents

pp vii-viii

List of figures

pp ix-ix

Notes of contributors

pp x-xii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-16

Part 1 - Law

pp 17-18

2 - Dread of the Crown Office: the English magistracy and King's Bench, 1740–1800

pp 19-45

3 - The trading justice's trade

pp 46-70

4 - Impressment and the law in eighteenth-century Britain

pp 71-94

Part 2 - Crime

pp 95-96

5 - War as a judicial resource. Press gangs and prosecution rates, 1740–1830

pp 97-116

6 - Making the ‘bloody code’? Forgery legislation in eighteenth-century England

pp 117-138

7 - Mapping criminal law: Blackstone and the categories of English jurisprudence

pp 139-162

Part 3 - Society

pp 163-164

8 - After Somerset: Mansfield, slavery and the law in England, 1772–1830

pp 165-184

9 - Religion and the Law: evidence, proof and ‘matter of fact’, 1660–1700

pp 185-207

10 - The press and public apologies in eighteenth-century London

pp 208-229

11 - Origins of the factory acts: The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, 1802

pp 230-255

John M. Beattie's publications

pp 256-257

Index

pp 258-264