NOTES

Chapter One

1.  M. Murray, The God of the Witches, London, 1933.

2.  C. Hole, English Folk Heroes, London, Batsford, 1948.

3.  E.J. Hobsbawm, Bandits, 2nd edn, London, Penguin, 1985.

Chapter Two

1.  Quoted in J.J. Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, London, University Paperbacks Edition, Methuen, 1961, p. 77.

Chapter Eleven

1.  J. Pearson, quoted in D. Rumbelow, I Spy Blue, London, Macmillan, 1971, pp. 57–8.

2.  L. Radzinowicz, A History of English Criminal Law and its Administration, 5 vols, London, Stevens, 1948–86, p. 327.

Chapter Twelve

1.  Quoted in D. Rumbelow, The Triple Tree. Newgate, Tyburn and Old Bailey, London, Harrap, 1982, p. 170.

2.  Quoted in V.A.C. Gattrell, The Hanging Tree. Execution and the English People, 1770–1868, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 60.

3.  Quoted in Rumbelow, The Triple Tree, p. 194.

4.  Quoted in D. Cooper, The Lesson of the Scaffold. The Public Execution Controversy in Victorian England, London, Allen Lane, 1974, pp. 20–1.

Chapter Fifteen

1.  F. McLynn, Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 57.