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Apr. 24th, 2003 08:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muninnhuginnCourtesy of a link in the NY Times Technology section: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey. (The article's here.)
It's searchable; it's got pictures of the original documents plus transcriptions; it's got explanatory background; it's got crimes we've never even heard of. "Barratry?" What's that when it's at home?* So far, only the years 1714 to 1759 have been covered. Sadly that's still 22,000 trials we want to read through.
* In this context, the OED's fourth definition of "The offence of habitually exciting quarrels, or moving or maintaining law-suits; vexatious persistence in, or incitement to, litigation." seems the best fit.
