John Harland Antiquary

Three Lancashire Documents of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Comprising I. - The Great De Lacy Inquisition, Feb. 16, 1311. II. - The Survey of 1320-1346. III. - Custom Roll and Rental of the Manor of Ashton-under-Lyne, November 11, 1422

• Author(s): John Harland (Antiquary.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1868
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Mamecestre: Being Chapters from the Early Recorded History of the Barony; the Lordship Or Manor; the Vill, Borough, Or Town of Manchester

• Author(s): John Harland (Antiquary.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1861
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Collectanea Relating to Manchester and Its Neighbourhood at Various Periods

• Author(s): John Harland (Antiquary.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1866
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London

• Author(s): Society of Antiquaries of London

• Categories: Archaeology

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1856
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England

• Author(s): L. R. Poos

• Categories: Divorce settlements

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2022-07-21
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• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and adroitly manipulated his own and other people's land. The dozens of lawsuits in which the Rishtons were involved, in many different courts, elucidate one family's engagement with law in Tudor England: how they used and misused law, how it shaped their perceptions of rights and mutual obligations, and how it framed litigants' and witnesses' language. Drawing upon trial and estate records, the core of th...