Quarter Sessions: Your Ancestors and the Law

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The law, rules and regulations affected by the life of every one of our ancestors. This guide deals with their contacts and conflicts at local, county level, not only when their activities were criminal, in all their interaction with their neighbors and authorities, Matters which now occupy the attention of a hundred and one local and national civil servants and statutory bodies were then under the haphazard control of a small body of men which no qualifications beyond the ownership of property. In the mass of records they left, all human life is mirrored tarnished by grim as the reflection may be. They are a badly underused source for family historians, and this guide aims to show their potential value. 36 pages (A5)