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Category Archives: law
James I’s sanctuary legislation
I have just added two pieces of Jacobean legislation to the statutes archive: the clause of 1604 repealing sanctuary acts and the clauses of 1623 that purportedly abolished sanctuary outright. Unlike all the other laws on sanctuary, these are extreme … Continue reading
Resource: The Acts of Parliament
Notice: I’ve now taken up the task of scanning these volumes, proofing the OCR and organizing the statutes. Watch http://statutes.org.uk/ for progress. The law is an important historical source, and especially so for the history of debt. Over the 200 … Continue reading