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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

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)
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
- Macnair, M.R.T., The law of proof in early modern equity (Berlin, 1999)

• Discusses 'the conceptual structure of the doctrine and procedure of proof of facts in the courts of equity and the relationship of this doctrine to the proof concepts of contemporary civilians (lawyers trained in the civil law tradition, working both in civil and canon laws)'. Argues that contemporaries were essentially right in seeing courts of equitsy as pursuing essentially civilian proof procedure and concepts

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

Prest, Wilfrid R., The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, 1590-1640 (XXXX, 1972)
- 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

- Lemmings, David, Gentlemen and barristers: the Inns of Court and the English bar, 1680-1730 (Oxford, 1990)

• See especially Ch. 1: 'The student body of the inns of court', pp. 8-30; Ch. 4 'Formal and informal legal education', pp.55-109; and Ch. 8: 'The pattern of preferment', pp. 235-257

Recommended C17th law books

(as purchased by James Master of Yotes Court)

Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England, 4 vols. (London, 1628-1644)
See Wikipedia entry on the Institutes of the Laws of England

• Four parts; first part: a Commentary upon Littleton. Often called "Coke on Littleton" or abbreviated "Co. Litt.", second part: Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient and Other Statutes., third part: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown and Criminal Causes., fourth part: Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts.

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)

Other C17th law books

Bacon, Francis, The elements of the common lawes of England (XXXX, XXXX)

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)