MRP: Courts
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High Courts
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A short profile of the makeup and operation of the following three English courts in the first half of the seventeenth century
Court of Arches
Sources
Court of Chancery
Guy Miege provides a vivid description of a swarm of clerks within the various offices of the Master of the Rolls in the High Court of Chancery
Sources
Henderson, John Greene, Chancery practice: with especial reference to the office and duties of masters in chancery, registers, auditors, commissioners in chancery, court commissioners, master commissioners, referees, etc., including forms of orders of reference, master's reports, objections, exceptions, orders of ... (London, 1904)
Raithby, John, Cases argued and adjudged in the High Court of Chancery (1680-1719), vol. 2, pt. 2 (London, 1806)
- Miege, Guy, Description of High Court of Chancery, pp. 277-280, in The present state of Great Britain, in three parts (Pt. 1) (London, 1718)
Court of Common Pleas
Sources
Cory's (Tho.), Course and practice to the Court of Common Please, with additions by W.B., a Clerk of the same Court (London, 1672)
Townesend, George, A preparative to pleading...(Being) a work intended for the instruction and help of young clerks of the common pleas (XXXX, 1675)
Doctors Commons
Sources
- Senior, W., Doctors Commons and the old court of admiralty (London, 1922)
