The Law's Lumber Room (Second Series)

Early Laws against Witchcraft--The Essex Witches--The Devon Witches--The Bury St. Edmunds Case--Bewitched Children--The Scepticism of Serjeant Keeling--Evidence of Sir Thomas Br...

Hood and Lamb on the Pillory--Its Various Shapes--Butcher and Baker--Brawler and Scold--Fraudulent Attorneys--End of the Pillory and of Public Whipping--Literary Martyrs--De Foe...

Two of Tyburn’s officials, the Ordinary and the Hangman, to wit, now claim our attention. The Ordinary, or prison chaplain of Newgate, said “Amen” to the death sentence, and min...

But the interests are varied. How full of grotesque and curious horrors are the prosecutions for witchcraft! There is that one, for instance, in March 1665 at Bury St. Edmunds b...

_This is an entirely distinct book from the first series of the Law’s Lumber Room. The subjects are of more general interest, they are treated with greater fulness of detail, mo...

To meet such conditions the Border Laws were evolved. They were administered in chief by special officers called Wardens. Either Border was portioned out into three Marches: the...

I have had occasion to refer to Border faith. In 1569 the Earl of Northumberland was implicated in a rising against Elizabeth. Fleeing north, he took refuge with an Armstrong, H...

I turn to the registers wherein the doings of the Fleet Parsons are more or less carefully recorded. In 1783 most of those still extant had got into the hands of Mr. Benjamin Pa...

The case continued to excite enormous interest, increased by an account which she issued from prison of her father’s death and her relations with Cranstoun. She was constant in...

As for centuries all the judges were Serjeants, the history of the order is that of the Bench and Bar of England; yet some famous men rose no higher, or for one reason or other...