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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


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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

BOOK PAGE Present State Of GB Master Of Rolls P279.png

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)