ABSTRACT
The subject-matter of this chapter may be said to commence with the cases of Ziegler and the woman Elizabeth Mechtlin (1611) last mentioned; that is in so far as these sexual offences have any bearing on the social life of the past. Here, again, it is not the offences as such which concern us, but rather the surrounding circumstances as they are detailed in the course of the proceedings, and especially the psychological aspect of the matter.
