Week 4: To catch a thief
Read at least one of the following:
C Herrup, ‘New shoes and mutton pies: investigative responses to theft in seventeenth-century East Sussex’, Historical Journal, 27 (1984) [online]; or chap. 4 of her book The common peace
Garthine Walker, ‘Women, theft and the world of stolen goods’, in Kermode and Walker (eds), Women, crime and the courts; or the chapter on theft in her Crime, gender and social order in early modern England
S Howard, ‘Investigating responses to theft in early modern Wales: communities, thieves and the courts’, Continuity and Change, 19 (2005) [online]
I’ve put a copy of the main primary source in Blackboard, in Course Documents. (There are a few extra examples from last year as well, for anyone interested.)