Drawing on the archival sources of one of early Modern Englands largest Assize Circuits, the Western Circuit, Markus Eder unfolds in this second slightly revised and updated edition of his book "At The Instigation of the Devil" Capital Punishment and the Assize in the early Modern England, 1670-1730" before the eyes of the reader the patterns of capital crime and capital punishment during the period 1670-1730.