Contesting London Bridewell, 1576-1580

Journal of British Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-315

  Griffiths, Paul ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/374292     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Compare Mary Mssell, Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Cambridge. 1991), chap. 8
2. Colin Jones, Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region, 1740-1815 (Cambridge, 1982). chap. 6
3. A recent survey of the early history of these hospitals is Paul Slack, "Hospitals, Workhouses, and the Relief of the Poor in Early Modern London," in Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700, ed. Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (London, 1997), pp. 234-51
4. See also Christopher Thomas Daly, "The Hospitals of London: Administration, Refoundation and Benefaction, c. 1500-1572" (D.Phil, thesis, University of Oxford, 1994)
5. The most complete history of Bridewell is still E. G. O'Donoghue, Bridewell Hospital, Palace, Prison, and School: From the Death of Elizabeth to Modern Times (London, 1929)
6. See also Ian W. Archer, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London (Cambridge, 1991), chap. 6
7. A. L. Beier, Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560-1640 (London, 1985), pp. 164-69
8. Joanna Innes, "Prisons for the Poor: English Bridewells, 1555-1800." in Labour, Law, and Crime: A Historical Perspective, ed. Francis Snyder and Douglas Hay (London, 1987), pp. 42-122, esp. pp. 49-61
9. I will more fully examine Bridewell's first century in mv forthcoming book, "Lost Londons: Crime, Control, and Change in the Capital City." 1545-1660."
10. St. Bartholomew Hospital Archives (BHA), "The Ordre of the Hospitall of St. Bartholomewes in West Smythfield in London" (1552), fol. Av
11. Beier, Masterless Men, p. 164
12. Innes, "Prisons for the Poor," pp. 42, 53
13. Francis Bacon, "A Brief Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell," in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. J. Spedding et al., 14 vols. (London, 1857-74), 7:512
14. GL MSS 6, fol. 6v; 9384, "A Brief Treatise . . . on the Validity . . . of the Charter of Bridewell."
15. The development of this wave of incarceration across western Europe is described in Pieter Spierenburg, The Prison Experience: Disciplinary Institutions and Their Inmates in Early Modern Europe (New Brunswick, N.J., and London, 1991)
16. John Howes' MS, 1582, p. 72
17. Journals of Common Council (Jour.) 20(2). fol. 501v
18. The Journals of All the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Collected by Sir Simonas D'Ewes, rev. P. Bowes (1682; facsimile copy. Shannon, 1973), p. 648
19. T. E. Hartley, ed., Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I, vol. 3, 1593-1601 (London, 1995), pp. 354, 421
20. David Dean, Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England: The Parliament of England, 1584-1601 (Cambridge, 1997), p. 250
21. Bacon. "A Brief Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell," p. 7
22. A series of articles by T. G. Barnes provides the best discussion of Star Chamber records as historical sources and the circumstances in which they were produced. See his "Due Process and Slow Process in the Late Elizabethan and Early-Stuart Star Chamber," American Journal of Legal History 6 (1962): 221-49
23. "The Archives and the Archival Problems of the Elizabethan and Early Stuart Star Chamber," in Prisca Munimenta: Studies in Archival and Administrative History Presented to A. E. J. Hollaender, ed. Felicity Ranger (London, 1973)
24. "Star Chamber and the Sophistication of the Criminal Law," Criminal Law Review (1977), pp. 316-26
25. and "Star Chamber Litigants and Their Counsel. 1596-1641." in Legal Records and the Historian, ed. J. H. Baker (London. 1978), pp. 7-28
26. More recent studies include Steve Hindle, The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, c. 1550-1640 (Basingstoke, 2000), chap. 3
27. and Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 (Oxford, 2000), chap. 6
28. See Paul Griffiths. "Overlapping Circles: Imagining Criminal Communities in London, 1545-1645," in Communities in Early Modern Britain: Networks, Place, Rhetoric, ed. Alexandra Shepard and Philip Withington (Manchester, 2000), pp. 115-33
29. and Paul Griffiths, "The Structure of Prostitution in Elizabethan London," Continuity and Change 8, no. 1 (1993): 39-63
30. The broader context of this is discussed by Craig Muldrew, The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England (Basingstoke, 1998). chaps. 6 and 7
31. and by Alexandra Shepard, "Manhood, Credit and Patriarchy in Early Modern England, c. 1580-1640," Past and Present, no. 167 (2000): 75-106
32. Steve Rappaport, Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London (Cambridge, 1989)
33. See Bernard Capp, "The Double Standard Revisited: Plebeian Women and Male Sexual Reputation in Early Modern England," Past and Present, no. 162 (1999): 70-100
34. Rolles was put on trial at Hertford Assizes on 15 July 1577, and he is described as a "yeoman" of Hertford. He was charged with stealing a brown bay mare (worth £7) on 18 May 1577 in Hertford and was sentenced to hang at the Assizes. See J. S. Cockburn, ed., Calendar of Assize Records: Hertfordshire Indictments: Elizabeth I (London, 1975), pp. 133, 134, 138
35. See J. A. Sharpe, " 'Last Dying Speeches': Religion, Ideology and Public Execution in Seventeenth-Century England," Past and Present, no. 107 (1985): 144-67
36. V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868 (Oxford, 1994), chaps. 1-3
37. R. H. Tawney and E. Power, eds., Tudor Economic Documents, 3 vols. (London, 1924), 3:441