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In the late 17th century, London shopkeepers began to display goods in ways designed to attract shoppers, such as in window displays and glass cases. This made the goods more accessible for shoppers to handle and examine, which historians say led to an acceleration of shoplifting. [9]
During the eighteenth century, about 125 boys and girls whose age was at most fourteen were tried at the Old Bailey for either theft or violent theft, 77 of whom were convicted of grand larceny. Way below came burglary, theft from a specified place and shoplifting, amongst others. [24]
Clay eventually returned to London to take up shoplifting again, and the pamphlet claimed that she was imprisoned and escaped 4 times. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was condemned to hang at Tyburn on 12 April 1665 for theft, but avoided execution by poisoning herself on the morning of 11 April with "4 papers of white mercury" in Newgate gaol .
Henry Symeonis (fl. 1225–1264) was a wealthy Englishman from Oxford, who became the target of "a very strange" c. 550-year-long grudge at the University of Oxford.Until 1827, Oxford students had to swear an oath never to be reconciled with Henry Symeonis–despite Oxford apparently having forgotten by the 17th century who he was or what he did.
Moll, apart from being a nickname for Mary, was a common name in the 16th through 17th centuries for a young woman, usually of disreputable character. [1] The term "Cutpurse" refers to her reputation as a thief who would cut purses to steal the contents.
According to John Boynton Kaiser, "Victor Hugo has given us a pretty faithful picture of many characteristic details of social England of the 17th century; but the word Comprachicos is used to describe a people whose characteristics are an unhistorical conglomeration of much that was once actual but then obsolete in the history of human society."
By the 17th century, when those buried in the crypt would have lived, Milan (then a possession of Spain) was a major importer of exotic plants, especially from the Americas, so cocaine could’ve ...
Pickpocketing in the 18th century was committed by both men and women (looking at prosecuted cases of pickpocketing, it appears that there were more female defendants than male.) [16] Along with shoplifting, pickpocketing was the only type of crime committed by more women than men. [17]