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Crimes and Criminals of 17th Century Britain
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Secret Rutland
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“The fact that almost everyone was armed, and murders through loss of control occurred as an inevitable by-product of this, seems to have been something beyond the comprehension of the times.”
― Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain
― Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain
“The pistol was still an unfamiliar weapon for a criminal to wield in the very early seventeenth century. This we can glean from an entry among the Middlesex Sessions Rolls dated 22 May 1602, when the case against a man named Kimber (‘late of London, gentleman’) was heard. He was accused of assaulting William Peverell with ‘a certain instrument called a pistol.”
― Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain
― Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain
“Coroners had the power to pronounce someone guilty at an inquest, even before a trial had occurred, whilst paid informers and thief-takers, often with a criminal background themselves, frequently emerged offering their services to catch other criminals.”
― Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain
― Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain
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