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- Coroners’ inquests
Keywords: coronersdeathsinquests - Court of Star Chamber records 1485-1642
Keywords: civil litigationcourts of lawearly modern periodequity courtslaw and orderstar chamber (court of)trials - Courts of law records held in other archives
Keywords: civil litigationconvictscourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtslaw and ordertrials - Criminal court cases: an overview
Keywords: courts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtslaw and ordertrials - Criminal court cases: assize courts 1559-1971
Keywords: assize courtscourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtsearly modern periodlaw and ordertrials - Criminal court cases: Crown courts since 1972
Keywords: central criminal courtcourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtscrown courtslaw and ordermagistrates' courtsold baileytrials - Criminal court cases: King’s/Queen’s Bench 1675-1988
Keywords: courts of lawcriminal courtskings bench (court of)law and ordertrials - Criminal court cases: Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court)
Keywords: central criminal courtcourts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtslaw and orderold baileytrials - Criminal courts: appeal cases
Keywords: courts of lawcrime and criminalscriminal courtslaw and ordertrials - Criminal transportation
Keywords: australia (transportation to)convictscrime and criminalsprisonerstransportation (punishment) - Outlaws and outlawry in medieval and early modern England
Keywords: crime and criminalsearly modern periodlaw and ordermedieval periodoutlaws - Prisoners and convicts
Keywords: central criminal courtconvictscourts of lawcrime and criminalslaw and orderold baileyprisonerstrials