History A-Level
Collapse of legal and church structures
What Collapse of legal and church structures means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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County magistrates were divided by allegiance and the church courts ceased to function, weakening the customary checks on prosecution.
Topics that use Collapse of legal and church structures
- Paper 3, Option 33: The witch craze in Britain, Europe and North America, c1580–c1750 - 4 Matthew Hopkins and the East Anglian witch craze, 1645–47 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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