Law and Law Enforcement

The English Legal System

• History of the Judiciary

• History of Justices of the Peace (magistrates)

• Another History of Justices of the Peace

• The Bill of Rights, 1689

• Blacksstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1765-1769

• Common Law in Medieval England

• History of English Common Law by Matthew Hale 1739

• History of the Criminal Court Circuits

Courts

• A brief description of the 19th Century Criminal Justice System

• Courts of Quarter Sessions

• The Quarter Sessions

• Quarter Sessions Records- what they hold

• History of Assize Courts

• Manorial Courts

The Inns of Court

• A history of the Inns of Court

• Gray's Inn

• The Inner Temple Includes a database of admissions between 1547 and 1850

• The Middle Temple

• Lincoln's Inn

Trials and Court Hearings

• A history of Crime and Punishment

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834 Also has old maps and other info about London history.

• Famous Trials~Worldwide

• A guide to searching Assize Court Records

• Early 18th Century Crime Reports Newspaper extracts

• A History of Crime and Punishment

• Important English trials 1649-1895

• Criminal Courts in the 19th Century

For Licensed Victuallers' Records see separate page -Court Sessions and Victuallers' Licences

For Poor Law Information see separate page - Poor Law and Workhouse records

Regional Court Records

• London Assize of Nuisance Records 1301-1431

• London Possessory Assizes 1340-1451

• The London Eyre of 1244 -Royal Courts

• The London Eyre of 1276

• 18th Century Hackney Petty Sessions Records

• A History of Crime in Northumberland and Durham

• Convicts tried at Nottingham Borough Quarter Sessions Assizes Details of Prisoners who were subsequently deported to Australia

• Kent Quarter Sessions Indices Records between 1682 and 1804

• An index of over 8000 prisoners brought to trial at York Assizes between 1785 and 1851

• A database of persons tried at the Derbyshire Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions 1770-1828.

• Devon Quarter Sesssion Records, Easter 1830

• Crime and Punishment in Buckinghamshire

• A History of Crime and Punishment in Dundee

• Prisoners sentenced to transportation from Lewes Assizes between c1790 and c1850

• A guide to Court and Prison Records in Manchester

• History of Crime and Detection with specific reference to Shropshire

• Calendar of Wigan Borough Court Leet Rolls from 1686

• The New Forest Verderers' Court

• Court of Great Sessions in Wales from 1730 until 1830.

• Crime and Puishment in Powys

• Caernarfonshire Quarter Sessions Records 1546-1795

• History of the Courts in the Isle of Man

• English Witch Trials

• The Trial of the Lowestoft Witches

• Essex Witch Trials

• The Dunmow Flitch Trials Includes a list of successful claimants from 1445

See also separate section on Convict Transportation

Gaols

• Aylesbury Prison in the 1870s Includes details of the prisoner's crime and sentence, and, in some instances, his photograph

• Bedford Gaol in 19th Century Includes a database of entries from gaol registers held by the Bedfordshire & Luton Archives - ongoing

• Chester Gaol, 1808-1816

• Derby Gaol 1756-1825 List of Executed Prisoners

• Inmates of Derby Gaol 1750-1868

• A history of Durham Gaol

• Some Prisoners in Gloucestershire Gaols, 1850 & 1851

• Database of Convicts held at Lancaster Castle

• A History of Newgate Prison including List of Inmates and Victims

• HMP Parkhurst Prisoners and Warders in the 19th Century

• Ruthin Gaol History and some lists of prisoners and Warders]

• Inmates of Dundee Jail in 1819

• Inveraray Prison~including prisoners who were deported

• Walton Gaol Inmates and Staff, 1881

• Warwick County Prison between 1800 and 1900 Inmates Database

• Warwickshire prisoners 1800-1900

• Life for Children in Prison in Victorian Britain

The Police

• History of the Metropolitan Police

• Police Force Roll of Honor-Officers that lost their lives On duty

• Friends of the Metropolitan Police Historical Collection

• Police reports-The Police Index

• The PARISH CONSTABLE, the Precursor of today's SPECIAL

• City of London Police wikipedia

• Welcome to the online Metropolitan police orders database

• City of London Police

• Index of Metropolitan Police listed in the Police Orders of 1878

• History of Wiltshire Police

• History of South Wales Police Headquarters

• A History of The Isle of Man Police

Murder

• Black Sheep indexsite currently unavailible

• Comprehensive list of Murders and Murderers-some info quite disturbing

• Murders in Liverpool

Executions-Executioners

• The English Hangmen from 1850 to 1964

• Capital Punishments Executed at Strangeways, Manchester

• List Of Executions - England 1606 Onward

• Capital Punishment in the 18th & 19th Centuries

• Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth

• The Abolition of Hanging in Britain

• Timeline of Capital Punishment in Britain

• The History of Judicial Hanging in Britain.

• The Guillotine Headquarters

• Executions in Derbyshire

• The Halifax Gibbet

Miscellaneous

• Victorian Crime and Punishment Includes a prisoner database

• A history of Punishment from 1750-1900

• Juvenile Crime in the 19th Century

• The System of Criminal Prosecution in the 19th Century

• Crime on the Lines Crimes committed on British Railways

• UK Historic Serious Crime and Victim Index

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