The Country Justice and the Case of the Blackamoor's Head - The Practice of the Law in Lincolnshire, 1787-1838. Part I: The Justice Books of Thomas Dixon of Riby, 1787-1798; Part II: Papers in the Case of Thorold v. Catton, 1830-1838 (Hardcover, New)

Legal documents from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Lincolnshire provide fascinating insights into life at the time. The legal system in eighteenth-century England has generally been viewed as an instrument of class justice, imposed by magistrates drawn from the gentry and aristocracy, and weighing harshly on the labouring and servant classes. The rare survival of the justicing notebooks of Thomas Dixon of Riby, as a working farmer an unusual recruit to the magistrates' bench, make it possible to draw a more nuanced picture. The only Lincolnshire magistrate to leave records of his work "out of sessions", his books detail those cases he heard and resolved alone, often "in my house at Riby", between his appointment in 1787 and his death in 1798; they provide an illuminating glimpse of the justice system in operation at its lowest level, where stealers of ducks and absconding servants were brought before a country justice - and reveal procedures frequently not found in other published accounts. The detail furnished by thesevolumes is amplified with extracts from other records, including those of quarter sessions and parish constables. Edited by B. J. Davey. The second part of the volume presents papers from an arbitration of 1838 between the licensee of a remote beer house ("The Blackamoor's Head") and the son of the local squire, with the former pressing the latter for repayment of a debt. The near-verbatim evidence describes the behaviour of the "bankers" - the localterm for navvies - engaged in deepening the adjoining river. The inn also provided hospitality to drovers who stopped overnight with their beasts en route from Scotland, and their bills provide rare quantitative evidence of the final years of this trade. Edited by R. C Wheeler. B.J. Davey taught History at the Immingham School and the University of Lincoln; R. C. Wheeler has written widely on cartographic and local history.

General

Imprint:	Lincoln Record Society
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	2012
Editors:	B.J. Davey • R.C. Wheeler
Contributors:	Brian Davey • Rob Wheeler
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	208
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-901503-94-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-901503-94-0
Barcode:	9780901503947

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