a)ASSI 35/44/6 Gaol Delivery Files
and b)ASSI 35/68/5.
These two cases show offences for which people were executed. Source
1a is from 1602, from the Kent Assizes. It was one of three highway
robbery offences committed by these three men and tried at these Assizes.
Source 1b is also from Kent, in 1626. It was William May's only offence.
Look at the value of the goods stolen in each case. Do they reach
the £5 threshold for a capital offence?
Put some of the evidence you have found
from these sources on to your Gallery Worksheet.
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