A History of Crime in England Volume 1; Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the Progress of Civilisation (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Errata. Page 23 5 lines from top, dele the second ' to be' 31 12,, bottom, for In read To 173 5,, ,, after ' as' insert a comma,, 192 14,, top, for objects read object,, 210 12,, bottom, after ' for' insert a comma 211 7 after Though dele it may be said that,, 213 6,, ,, after as insert a,, 226 14,, top, after is dele the comma 252 6 bottom, for and laid them waste read which they laid waste 262 15,, after ' that' insert a comma,, 301 7,, ,, insert the comma after ' that' instead of before 303 7,, after ' relatives 'dele the comma,, 346 second side-note, for erasures read erasure,, 360 last line, after that dele the comma,, 429 lines 20 and 23 from bottom, for the S in ' Signiferorum' rtad L,, 430 16 lines from top, after comparison dele the comma 441 third side note, for Notes read Note,, 445 10 lines from top, for Lives read Life 490 6,, ,, after relate insert to,, 495 22,, after remains dele the comma A HISTORY OF CRIME IN ENGLAND. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTOR Y. FROM THE ROMAN INVASION TO THE NORMAN CONQUEST. WHAT is Crime ? Whence come the Criminals ? Have we inherited from the darker ages a malady which is gradually becoming extinct, or The scope, ......, the sources. are we ourselves 1ndulg1ng 1n new and more ev1l and the diffi- 11- 1-1 -11 -11 f 1 1 1.- cultiesofthe hab1ts, wh1ch w1ll corrupt st1ll iurther the l1fe- work. blood of posterity ? Is it true that where wealth accumulates men decay, that our forefathers were better men than we, and that, as we strain our eyes back into the past, we can see in history that golden age of which poets in all countries have prattled ? Savages who were noble, knights who were blameless in their lives and fearless in deat...