Infanticide in early modern England: The court of great sessions at chester, 1650-1800

Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 35-51

  Dickinson, J R ^a   Sharpe, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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References (8)

1. William Gouge, Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises (London, 1622), p. 507.
2. Richard Cust (ed.), The Papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Bart (1S85-1645) (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 134, 1996), p. 22.
3. Keith Wrightson, 'infanticide in European history', Criminal Justice History, 3 (1982), 1-20, at 15.
4. Mark Jackson, New-Born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-Century England (Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1996), pp. 6-7.
5. J.A. Sharpe, Crime in Seventeenth-Century England: A County Study (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press/Past and Present Publications, 1983), p. 136
6. J.M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 114
7. Jackson, New-Born Child Murder, p. 29.
8. Jackson, New-Born Child Murder, pp. 133-57.