1. Sir Matthew Hale, Historia Placitorum Cronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown: Published from the Original Manuscripts by Sollom Emlyn; with Additional Notes and References to Modern Cases Concerning the Pleas of the Crown by George Wilson (London: T. Payne, 1800), 629.
2. I have discussed the legal aspects of this case in Yorick Smaal ‘“An Imbecility of Body as well as Mind”: Common Law and the Sexual Incapacity of Boys’, Criminal Law Journal, vol. 36 (2012), 249–51.
3. Yorick Smaal, ‘Historical Perspectives on Child Sexual Abuse’, part 1, History Compass, vol. 11, no. 9 (2013), 702–714.
4. See Stephen Angelides, ‘Feminism, Child Sexual Abuse and the Erasure of Childhood Sexuality’, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2 (2004), 141–77.
5. See for example Stephen Robertson, Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880–1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005);