Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England.

Episode 320 Justice and the English State.

Just a quick recommendation for you all, before I start, Michael McCormack got in touch

with me and shared some of the paintings he'd done inspired from history and from the podcast

and I enjoyed them very much.

So if you are a history or an art buff, I suggest you go along to MichaelJamesMcCormack.com

and have a look, I'll put the link on the post for today's podcast.

Okay, so last time everyone we talked about the stresses and strains on the later Elizabethan

State and hopefully added a bit of colour to the idea that the last decade or so of Elizabeth's

reign was a sort of golden age.

Obviously, I'm the kind of compliant person that hides my head in horror at the ever-present

marketing blurb of the untold story or mishmusting, but if you can't beat him, might

as well join him, so this week we continue the untold story of Elizabethan England and

you and I, we are get to bust those myths, ladies and gentlemen, bust those myths.

So, to add to the pressures we talked about of war, death, right and poverty, we must

add crime and also how successful or otherwise was the Elizabethan State in dealing with it.

As I suggested last time, it appears that there was a crime wave between 1580 and about

1630 with a dramatic fall from 1640.

However, it's worth thinking about population by the way, where growth that started around

1550 seems to finally level off around 1630.

Just saying it all, just saying, I mean, I know correlation doesn't mean causation as I

learned from David Mitchell on would I lie to you, but here it might just play a role.

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