Abstract
A ppraising these two books requires a context--namely, the flood of historical scholarship that has been directed in recent years toward uncovering the secrets of English crime. Some would point to the origins of this endeavor in the pioneering works of Frank Aydelotte and A.V. Judges, whose English Rogues and Vagabonds (1913) and Elizabethan Underworld (1930), respectively, gave a new dimension to the era of Elizabeth I. J.J. Tobias's Crime and Industrial Society in the Nineteenth Century (1967) and G.R. Elton's Policy and Police: The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Cromwell (1972) similarly broke new ground in the "modern" era. A good case can be made that criminal justice history as we know it really began in the 1970s, with the appearance ofJ, S. Cockburn's History of English Assizes, 1558-1714 (1971), J.M. Beattie's "Pattern of Crime in En-
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