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Crime and the law
- Bellamy, John Gilbert.
        Crime and Public Order in England in the Later Middle
        Ages. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
      
- Bellamy, John Gilbert.
        Criminal Law and Society in Late Medieval and Tudor
        England. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1984.
      
- Briggs, John. Crime and
        Punishment in England: An Introductory History. New
        York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
      
- Brinkworth,
        Edwin Robert Courtney. Shakespeare and the Bawdy
        Court of Stratford. Chichester: Phillimore, 1972.
      
- Clegg, Cyndia Susan.
        Press Censorship in Elizabethan England.
        Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
      
- Cockburn, J.S, ed. Crime in
        England 1550-1800. Princeton, N.J: Princeton UP, 1977.
      
- Dolan, Frances E..
        Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime
        in England, 1550-1700. Ithaca: Cornell University
        Press, 1994.
      
- Emmison, F.G. Elizabethan
        Life: Morals and the Church Courts. Chelmsford: Essex
        County Council, 1973.
      
- Erickson, Amy Louise.
        Women and Property in Early Modern England.
        London: Routledge, 1993.
      
- Hibbert, Christopher.
        The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and
        Punishment. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978
        [1963].
      
- Judges, A.V.. The
        Elizabethan Underworld. London: Routledge & Kegan
        Paul Ltd., 1965 [1930].
      
- Kermode,
        Jennifer and Garthine Walker, eds.. Women, Crime
        and the Courts in Early Modern England. London: UCL
        Press, 1994.
      
- Knight, William
        Nicholas. Shakespeare's Hidden Life: Shakespeare at
        the Law, 1585-1595. New York: Mason & Lipscomb,
        1973.
      
- Maclean, Ian. Interpretation
        and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law.
        Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
      
- Marshburn, Joseph.
        Murder & Witchcraft in England, 1550-1640: As
        Recounted in Pamphlets, Ballads, Broadsides, and
        Plays. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press,
        1971.
      
- McCall, Andrew. The
        Medieval Underworld. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979.
      
- McMullan, John L.. The
        Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld, 1550-1700.
        New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1984.
      
- McPeek, James
        Andrew Scarborough.. The Black Book of Knaves and
        Unthrifts, in Shakespeare and Other Renaissance
        Authors. Storrs: University of Connecticut, 1969.
      
- Quaife, G. R. Wanton Wenches
        and Wayward Wives: Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early
        Seventeenth Century England. London: Croom Helm, 1979.
      
- Salgado, Gamini. The
        Elizabethan Underworld. London: J.M. Dent & Sons,
        1977.
      
- Sharpe, J. A. Crime and the
        Law in English Satirical Prints, 1600-1832. Cambridge,
        England: Chadwyck-Healey, 1986.
      
- Sharpe, J.A. Crime in Early
        Modern England 1550-1750. London: Longman Group, 1984.
      
- Slack, Paul. The English Poor
        Law, 1531-1782. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education,
        1990.
      
- Slavin, Arthur Joseph,
        ed. Tudor Men and Institutions; Studies in English Law
        and Government. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana UP,
        1972.
      
- Viles, Edward, ed..
        The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth:
        Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of Vacabondes' and Harman's
        'Caveat'. London: Chatto and Windus, 1907.
      
- White, Beatrice. Cast of
        Ravens: The Strange Case of Sir Thomas Overbury.
        London: J. Murray, 1965.