The Strange Laws Of Old England
$38.64
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2013
Summary
Did you know that:
- It’s against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking?
- Under a statute of Edward II, all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch?
- Under a Tudor law, Welshmen are not allowed into the city of Chester after dark?
In The Strange Laws of Old England, Nigel Cawthorne unearths an extraordinary collection of the most bizarre and arcane laws that have been enacted ov…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749954154 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0749954159 |
| Author: | Nigel Cawthorne |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Piatkus Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 126mm x 196mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Tom Thorne Novels |
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Because of doubts about their moral character, there is an ordinance in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk banning the naming of streets after Shakespeare, Chaucer Byron or any other great poet; at St Peter’s … a law forbids ladies showing their ankles in public on pain of being put in the stocks … This light-hearted trawl through statute books, both past and present, unearths dozens of similar laws, some of which, bizarrely, are still in force … Who said the law was dull?–This England
About The Author
Nigel Cawthorne
Nigel Cawthorne has been a writer for nearly 30 years, writing a number of successful popular history books. He lives in London.
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