A study of aspects of crime and distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire
This dissertation examines crime and its relation to economic distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire. It uses evidence drawn from both Lancashire quarter sessions and assize courts. Mainly, however, it concentrates on the quarter sessions evidence. It studies crime at the county, as opposed to the local community, level; and makes use of a variety of types of court records. It does not rely on indictment evidence alone, but uses recognizances as the basis of time series, as well as other classifications of records. Using grain prices as a measure of changes in economic hardship, it examines short term change in patterns of recognizances in the county from 1627 to 1637, and also variations between the different areas in the county. Those different areas are the south-east of the county, which contained the emerging textile districts; the south-west of the county, which until the early seventeenth century had been the wealthiest part of Lancashire; and Lancashire north of the Ribble. It examines the relationship between crime and distress in the second half of the century using different types of evidence. Requests for assistance from the bench at quarter sessions are reconstructed as time series data, as
Johnson, Patricia Ann
Crime history
A study of aspects of crime and distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire. This dissertation examines crime and its relation to economic distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire. It uses evidence drawn from both Lancashire quarter sessions and assize courts. Mainly, however, it concentrates on the quarter sessions evidence. It studies crime at the county, as opposed to the local community, level; and makes use of a variety of types of court records. It does not rely on indictment evidence alone, but uses recognizances as the basis of time series, as well as other classifications of records. Using grain prices as a measure of changes in economic hardship, it examines short term change in patterns of recognizances in the county from 1627 to 1637, and also variations between the different areas in the county. Those different areas are the south-east of the county, which contained the emerging textile districts; the south-west of the county, which until the early seventeenth century had been the wealthiest part of Lancashire; and Lancashire north of the Ribble. It examines the relationship between crime and distress in the second half of the century using different types of evidence. Requests for assistance from the bench at quarter sessions are reconstructed as time series data, as
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