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Murder and Sudden Death in Medieval Wigston
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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 21 |
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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society
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21
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175 - 186 |
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| Abstract: |
IN the short space of ninety-one years, between 1299 and 1390, the people of Wigston were involved in no fewer than eight cases of murder or manslaughter. They were probably no more murderously inclined than other people in medieval days and we must regard this number of violent deaths as typical of the time. In each of these eight cases, moreover, the guilty man received a royal pardon; it is the recording of the pardon among the patent rolls that has preserved for us the memory of these old crimes. Who knows how many more such violent deeds occurred of which we have no record to-day, how many screams in the night from a dark lane or a solitary field? An outlying part of the fields of Wigston was, indeed, known in the fourteenth century as "the robbers' valley'' and another part as ''the robbers' pasture'' . |
| Year of Publication: |
1939
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Murder
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Medieval
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Wigston
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Leicestershire
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ADS Archive
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| Created Date: |
08 Jun 2023 |
