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==The English Legal System==


*[http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/about_judiciary/judges_and_the_constitution/history_of_the_judiciary/index.htm History of the Judiciary ]

*[http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/aboutus/history/magistrates.htm History of Justices of the Peace (magistrates)]

*[http://www.magistrateswestyorks.org.uk/history.html Another History of Justices of the Peace]


==Courts==


*[http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/ccourts.htm A brief description of the 19th Century Criminal Justice System]

*[http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/acs-records-education-newslettersummer2007.doc Courts of Quarter Sessions]

*[http://www.gmcro.co.uk/cs/quarter_sessions.htm The Quarter Sessions]

*[http://freespace.virgin.net/owston.tj/quartses.htm Quarter Sessions Records- what they hold]

*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Research_Guide:_Assizes_-_Criminal_Trials History of Assize Courts]

*[http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/history/cmr/manors/whatis.htm#ManorCourts Manorial Courts]



==The Inns of Court==


*[http://www.online-law.co.uk/bar/inns_of_court.html A history of the Inns of Court]

*[http://www.graysinn.info/ Gray's Inn]

*[http://www.innertemple.org.uk/home.html The Inner Temple] Includes a database of admissions between 1547 and 1850

*[http://www.middletemple.org.uk/ The Middle Temple]

*[http://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/ Lincoln's Inn]



==Trials and Court Hearings==


*[http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/candp/default.htm A history of Crime and Punishment]

*[http://www.oldbaileyonline.org The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834] Also has old maps and other info about London history. 

*[http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm Famous Trials~Worldwide]

*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Research_Guide:_Assizes_-_Criminal_Trials A guide to searching Assize Court Records]

*[http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/grub/grub.htm Early 18th Century Crime Reports] Newspaper extracts

*[http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/hang/text.html A History of Crime and Punishment]

*[http://www.yeoldesussexpages.com/misc/genealog/gene.htm Important English trials 1649-1895]

*[http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/ccourts.htm Criminal Courts in the 19th Century]




'''For Licensed Victuallers' Records see separate page -[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Court_Sessions_and_Victuallers%27_Licences Court Sessions and Victuallers' Licences]'''

'''For Poor Law Information see separate page -
[http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Poor_Law_and_Workhouse_Records Poor Law and Workhouse records]'''

==Regional==


*[http://www.toughtimesandgrislycrimes.co.uk/ A History of Crime in Northumberland and Durham]

*[http://www.genealogytoday.com/au/articles/convict_research.html Convicts tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes] Details of Prisoners who were subsequently deported to Australia

*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/sessions.html Kent Quarter Sessions Indices] Records between 1682 and 1804

*[http://www.yorkfamilyhistory.org.uk/assizes.htm An index of over 8000 prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes between 1785 and 1851]

*[http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/CRIME.htm A database of persons tried at the Derbyshire Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions 1770-1828.]

*[http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/CourtRecords/QS32-105.html Devon Quarter Sesssion Records, Easter 1830]

*[http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/archives/education/victorian_crime/ Crime and Punishment in Buckinghamshire]

*[http://sites.scran.ac.uk/lamb/crime.htm A History of Crime and Punishment in Dundee]

*[http://www.rootschat.com/history/hastings/content/view/46/30 Prisoners sentenced to transportation from Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850]

*[http://www.manchester.gov.uk/Libraries/arls/pdf/courtrecords.pdf A guide to Court and Prison Records in Manchester]

*[http://www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk/roots/list_cri.htm History of Crime and Detection] with specific reference to Shropshire

*[http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/stuff/leet.php?opt=leet Calendar of Wigan Borough Court Leet Rolls from 1686]

*[http://www.llgc.org.uk/sesiwn_fawr/index_s.htm Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until 1830.]

*[http://history.powys.org.uk/history/common/crimenu.html Crime and Puishment in Powys]

*[http://www.gtj.org.uk/en/item10/10263 Caernarfonshire Quarter Sessions Records 1546-1795]


*[http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/blk1816/ch15.htm History of the Courts in the Isle of Man]

*[http://www.hulford.co.uk/trials.html English Witch Trials]

*[http://www.lowestoftwitches.com/ The Trial of the Lowestoft Witches]

*[http://www.hulford.co.uk/essex.html Essex Witch Trials]

*[http://www.dunmowflitchtrials.co.uk/ The Dunmow Flitch Trials] Includes a list of successful claimants from 1445




'''See also separate section on [http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/index.php/Emigration_and_Immigration Convict Transportation ]'''

==Gaols==


*[http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bucks_prisoners/index.htm Aylesbury Prison in the 1870s] Includes details of the prisoner's crime and sentence, and, in some instances, his photograph

*[http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/contents.htm Bedford Gaol in 19th Century] Includes a database of entries from gaol registers held by the Bedfordshire & Luton Archives - ongoing

*[http://www.derbygaol.com/crime_punishment.htm Derby Gaol 1756-1825] List of Executed Prisoners

*[http://www.multiline.com.au/~jeand/jweb/index.html Inmates of Derby Gaol 1750-1868]

*[http://www.dur.ac.uk/4schools/Crime/Durhamprison1.htm A history of Durham Gaol]

*[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/calendarofprisoners Warwick County Prison between 1800 and 1900] Inmates Database

*[http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/newgate.html A History of Newgate Prison] including List of Inmates and Victims

*[http://members.lycos.co.uk/s0uthbury/ HMP Parkhurst] Prisoners and Warders in the 19th Century

*[http://www.rootsweb.com/~engchs/prison.html Chester Gaol, 1808-1816]

*[http://sites.scran.ac.uk/lamb/crime-pages/L442(5).htm Inmates of Dundee Jail in 1819]

*[http://www.inverarayjail.co.uk/index.htm Inveraray Prison~including prisoners who were deported]

*[http://www.lancastercastle.com/html/convict/default.php Database of Convicts held at Lancaster Castle]

*[http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/web/corporate/pages.nsf/links/3c3becfc9af8fc7b80256e7e0056b9fe Warwickshire prisoners 1800-1900]

*[http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/archives/education/victorian_crime/ Life for Children in Prison in Victorian Britain]

==The Police==


*[http://www.met.police.uk/history/index.htm History of the Metropolitan Police]

*[http://www.policememorial.org.uk/Forces/ForcesList.htm Police Force Roll of Honor-Officers that lost their lives On duty]

*[http://www.friendsofmethistory.co.uk/ Friends of the Metropolitan Police Historical Collection]

*[http://www.lightage.demon.co.uk/POLNOTES.htm#Top Police reports-The Police Index]

*[http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/nppm/constable.html The PARISH CONSTABLE, the Precursor of today's SPECIAL]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Police City of London Police wikipedia]

*[http://www.externalserver.me.uk:8085/ Welcome to the online Metropolitan police orders database]

*[http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/aboutus/history.html City of London Police]

*[http://www.geocities.com/evesfam/police/Policeindx.htm Index of Metropolitan Police listed in the Police Orders of 1878]

*[http://www.wiltshire.police.uk/history/pre1839.asp History of Wiltshire Police]

*[http://www.south-wales.police.uk/fe/master.asp?n1=8&n2=253&n3=691 History of South Wales Police Headquarters]

*[http://www.gov.im/dha/police/history/ A History of The Isle of Man Police]


==Murder== 


*[http://www.lightage.demon.co.uk/index.htm#Police%20Index Black Sheep index] 

*[http://www.murderuk.com/site_index.html Comprehensive list of Murders and Murderers-some info quite disturbing]

*[http://www.geocities.com/stevenhortonuk/liverpoolmurders.html Murders in Liverpool]




==Executions-Executioners==


*[http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hangmen.html The English Hangmen from 1850 to 1964]

*[http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/info/manchester-executions.html Capital Punishments Executed at Strangeways, Manchester]

*[http://www.fred.net/jefalvey/execute.html List Of Executions - England 1606 Onward]

*[http://uk.geocities.com/becky62655@btinternet.com/ Capital Punishment in the 18th & 19th Centuries]

*[http://www.geocities.com/richard.clark32@btinternet.com/common.html Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth]

*[http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/abolish.html The Abolition of Hanging in Britain]

*[http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/timeline.html Timeline of Capital Punishment in Britain]

*[http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging1.html The History of Judicial Hanging in Britain.]

*[http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/Guillot.html The Guillotine Headquarters]

*[http://www.derbycity.com/derby/execute.html Executions in Derbyshire]

*[http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/gibbet.html The Halifax Gibbet]





==Miscellaneous==


*[http://vcp.e2bn.org/ Victorian Crime and Punishment] Includes a prisoner database

*[http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/candp/punishment/g09/default.htm A history of Punishment from 1750-1900]

*[http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/articles/juvenile_part1.html Juvenile Crime in the 19th Century]

*[http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gaol/system.htm The System of Criminal Prosecution in the 19th Century]

*[http://www.btp.police.uk/History%20Society/Publications/History%20Society/Crime%20on%20line/Crime%20on%20the%20Lines.htm Crime on the Lines] Crimes committed on British Railways










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