title: Political culture in later medieval England: Essays by Simon Walker
author: Mike Braddick
description: <br>Simon Walker was Reader in History at the University of Sheffield until his death in 2004<br>
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  Fragments of Two Centuries
  
  
    
  
  
    
  [PREFACE.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.—“THE GOOD OLD TIMES.”  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER II. GETTING ON WHEELS—OLD COACHES, ROADS AND HIGHWAYMEN—THE ROMANCE
  OF THE ROAD.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER III. SOCIAL AND PUBLIC LIFE—WRESTLING AND COCK-FIGHTING—AN EIGHTEENTH
  CENTURY DEBATING CLUB.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. THE PAROCHIAL PARLIAMENT AND THE OLD POOR-LAW.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER V. DOGBERRY “ON DUTY.”  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VI. THE DARK NIGHT OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY—THE SHADOW OF NAPOLEON.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VII. DOMESTIC LIFE AND THE TAX-GATHERER—THE DOCTOR AND THE BODY-
  SNATCHER.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER VIII. OLD PAINS AND PENALTIES—FROM THE STOCKS TO THE GALLOWS.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER IX. OLD MANNERS AND CUSTOMS—SOLDIERS, ELECTIONS AND
  VOTERS—“STATTIES,” MAGIC AND SPELLS.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER X. TRADE, AGRICULTURE AND MARKET ORDINARIES.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XI. ROYSTON IN 1800-25.—ITS SURROUNDINGS, ITS STREETS, AND ITS
  PEOPLE.  
  
  
    
  [CHAPTER XII. PUBLIC WORSHIP AND EDUC