Week 7: Disputes and litigation
Secondary sources: choose at least one of the following
Alexandra Shepard, ‘Litigation and locality: the Cambridge university courts 1560-1640,’ Urban History, 31:1 (May, 2004) [e-journal]
CW Brooks, ‘Interpersonal conflict and civil litigation in England, 1640-1830,’ in A Beier et al (eds), The first modern English society.
JA Sharpe, ‘ “Such disagreement betwyx neighbours”: litigation and human relations in early modern England’, in John Bossy (ed), Disputes and settlements: law and human relations in the West.
Laura Gowing, ‘Gender and the language of insult in early modern London’, History Workshop Journal, 35 (1993).
Primary source: defamation litigation between Martha Ashton and Elizabeth Coates.
I have put a copy of the document extracts in Blackboard.
Alternatively, take a look at The Justicing Notebook of Henry Norris