Taking Exception to the Law by Donald Beecher

Author:Donald Beecher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

30 Henry Goodcole, Heavens Speedie Hue and Cry, A4v.

31 Thomas Harman, A Caveat for Common Cursitors, in Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature, p. 144.

32 Goodcole, Heavens Speedie Hue and Cry, B2r.

33 Rosamaria Loretelli, “Trial by Cheap Print,” p. 45.

34 This pamphlet is more fully discussed in my “Female Criminality in Henry Goodcole’s Murder Pamphlets.”

35 This law was first formulated in the statute of 1352 (25 Edward III). Michael Dalton emphasizes the idea that as a wife is “in subjection, and oweth faith, duetie, and obedience” to her husband, her act of spousal murder constitutes a fundamental rupture of domestic loyalty, The Country Justice, p. 204.

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