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C17th legal bibliography

Calendars and law reports

Ames, X, A selection of cases on the laws of bills and notes, vol. 2 (XXXX, 1894)
Browning, E., V. Lushington, Reports of cases decided in the High Court of Admiralty of England, 1863-1865 (London, 1868)
Phillimore, X., Calendar of Chancery proceedings (London, 188X)
Sanders, G.W., Orders of the high court of Chancery, vol. 1 (London, 1845)

Courts

Phillimore, R., The practice and courts of civil and ecclesiastical law (XXXX, 1848)
- Senior, W., Doctors Commons and the old court of admiralty (London, 1922)

Fields of law

Anonymous, The practick part of the law (XXXX, XXXX)
Davies, K.G., ‘Joint-stock investment in the later seventeenth century’, Economic History Review, 2nd ser., vol. IV, no. 3, pp. 283-301 ?DATE CHECK
Townesend, George, A preparative to pleading...(Being) a work intended for the instruction and help of young clerks of the common pleas (XXXX, 1675)
Weber, Max, transl. Lutz Kaelber, The history of commercial partnerships in the Middle Ages (Lanham, MY, 2003)

Grays Inn

- Severn, M.D., Catalogue of the books in the library of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn: with an index of subjects (London, 1906)

Lawyers

- Brooks, C.W., Pettyfoggers and vipers of the commonwealth: the ‘lower branch’ of the legal profession in early modern England (Cambridge, 1986)
- Foss, Edward, The Judges of England with sketches of their lives, 1603-1660 (vol. 6) (London, 1857)
Hart, A.R., A History of the king's serjeants at law in Ireland: honour rather than advantage? (XXXX, 2000)
Prest, Wilfrid R., The rise of the barristers: a social history of the English bar, 1590-1640 (Oxford, 1986)

• Appendix E Biographical Notes on Benchers, pp. 339-406
• Appendix G Geographical Origins of Sample, pp. 412-413
• Table 4.2 gentry and Unknowns: Geographical Origins, p. 92
• Table 4.4 Comparative Regional Origins
• Table 4.5 Migration and Urbanization
• Table 4.6 Regional Destinations
• Table 8.3 Regional Distribution of Royalists and Parliamentarians

Recommended C17th law books

(as purchased by James Master of Yotes Court)

Coke's Institutes
Cowell's Interpreter
Finch's Law
Lawyers Light
Littleton, Doctor and student
Proclamations
The attourney's academy (London, 1623)

• Deals with court procedures, starting actions, issuing of writs, appropriate fees; but probably targeted at laymen

The office of an atturney
Tysadale, John (printer), The tenours and forme of indentures, obligations, quitances, bylles of payment, letters of sale and letters of exchange (London, 1541)
The terms of the law
West's Presidents (sic)

Registers

Foster, J. (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889)
- Foster, J. (ed.), The register of admissions to Grays Inn, 1521-1889 (London, 1889)
Cooke, W.H. (ed.), Students admitted to Inner Temple, 1571-1625 (London, 1868)
- Cooke, W.H. (ed.), Students admitted to Inner Temple, 1571-1625 (London, 1868)
XXXX, Calendar of Inner Temple, 1603-1660 (XXXX, XXXX)
XXXX (ed.), Records of the honourable society of Lincolns Inn Black Book, 1586-1660, vol. 2 (London, 1898)