![]() ![]() Even so, in the absence of a faster means of pursuing criminals, the North Carolina Assembly in 1749 reenacted the statute of 17 Elizabeth (1585) concerning the hue and cry law. In March 1721 the marshal informed the court that he "had pursued by Hue and Cry to the Uttmost Limitts of the Government and that he could not be taken within the Same," so the case was dismissed. The system was not always successful, however. 1697, when the provost marshal or his deputy was ordered to search for John Griffen "and to make hue and cry after him from place to place and him being found to apprehend and safely to convey to the provost marshall." Full provisions of hue and cry were set forth in The Office and Authority of a Justice of Peace, published in New Bern in 1774 by James Davis, the provincial printer. The constable in the adjoining precinct was to take up the chase, and so on, "till the Offender is apprehended, or pursued to the Sea Side." Goods retaken from thieves were to remain in the custody of the officers who apprehended them "till Restitution is awarded by the Justices."Īn example of hue and cry occurred on 9 Oct. These ten men were responsible for the behaviour of each other. The hue and cry in medieval English towns Authors: Samantha Sagui Abstract In the middle ages the hue and cry played a significant role in maintaining peace. Every male over the age of 12 had to belong to a group of nine others, called a tithing. The person raising the alarm was expected to describe the offender and tell which way he or she had gone. The roots of local responsibility for crime prevention seem to lie in Anglo-Saxon customs that placed prevention squarely on the local community through the tithing and the Hue and Cry. I’ll share it another time.) Life in a Medieval Castle includes the following. (I was going to tell you about another favorite medieval book of mine, but when I discovered it is out of print, I decided I’ve tortured you enough for awhile with wonderful but difficult to obtain titles. Any person aware of a robbery or felony was required to raise a hue and cry "with horn and voice" to create an alarm for the pursuit and capture of the criminal. And the good news is, this book is STILL IN PRINT. When he made his escape, he had neither hat, coat, or shoes on’.Īnyone able to ‘apprehend and secure’ Nicholas was to give notice to George Johnson of Prudhoe, who would reward them handsomely for their trouble."Hue and cry" was a term used in English criminal law as early as 1275 and commonly applied in colonial North Carolina. ![]() ‘Nicholas Makepeace, a Husbandman, about five feet six or seven inches high, appears to be about twenty years of age, slender made, round shouldered, and stoops in walking, long visaged, dark eyes, has molds on his face, dark short hair, one of his arms, and part of his body, marked by a scald he got when a Child one of his feet broader and shorter than the other, and can speak the English, Scotch, or Hearse Dialect. This is the description printed in the newspaper: Raising the hue and cry in medieval communities was not only a method of social control but also a tool of community policing of certain types of unacceptable. We are not told what had led to his arrest. Nicholas Makepeace had escaped from constable William Whale near Lee Hall Northumberland on 8 April 1785. ![]() I came across one for a Nicholas Makepeace in the Newcastle Courant for 16 April 1785 when doing some family research. This article explores a medieval artistic tradition in which rape is shown as a savage act, worthy of condemnation. They sometimes include striking descriptions of the individuals being sought. The Hue and Cry notices in the British Newspaper Archive make fascinating reading.
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