Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
1 The blood-thirsty papist
2 The jealous mercer and the smitten lover
3 The strange discovery of sundry murders
4 The boy without any fear
5 The minister’s mutilation and murder
6 The cock-a-doodle-doo miracle
7 The life and death of a bawd
8 The hog-keeper and her daughter
9 The cripple’s complaint and the strumpet’s repentance
10 The gentlewoman’s unnatural crimes
11 The unhappy litigant
12 The Flowers at Beaver castle
13 The life and death of a churlish knave
14 The Devil’s secretary
15 The witches of St Edmundsbury
16 The baronet at the bar
17 The child-killer of St Olave
18 The Cavalier killer gets pressed
19 The gardener’s gallows reprieve
20 The murderous siblings of Monmouth
21 The widow’s murder
22 The beastly highwaymen
23 The fire in the garret
24 The penitent apprentice
25 The common witch, Goody Buts
26 The kindly widow and the shopkeeper’s wife
27 The madness of Mary Philmore
28 The French midwife’s miserable moan
29 The wicked life of Captain Harrison
30 The earl’s fatal stroke
Glossary
Bibliography
Index