Publisher's Synopsis
Two justices of the peace from South Buckinghamshire kept notebooks recording their justicing activities: Sir Roger Hill of Denham Place and Edmund Waller of Hall Barn, Beaconsfield. Hill's notebook covers 1689-93 and 1702-05, with some additional documents from 1727-28. Waller's notebook covers 1773 and 1786-88, and an appendix includes loose papers from thirty-six of his cases. Justices dealt with a vast range of matters, not all of them related to crime. The notebooks contain cases of assault, highway robbery, and theft of anything from apples to a horse. Hill and Waller also oversaw parish administration. They had to look into matters of bastardy, immorality and unpaid wages, and deal with the consequences of the Poor Law and the Game Laws.
