Frontispiece

pp ii-ii

English Legal History and Its Sources - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vii

Figures

pp viii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-x

Sir John Baker

pp xi-xiv

Abbreviations

pp xv-xv

Table of Statutes

pp xvi-xvi

Table of Selected Cases

pp xvii-xxiv

Part I - Law Reports and Reporting

pp 1-76

1 - Year Book Men

pp 3-22

2 - Errores in Camera Scaccarii

pp 23-43

Appendix A

pp 37-41

Appendix B

pp 42-43

3 - Law Reporting in the Seventeenth Century

pp 44-53

4 - The Law of Contracts as Reported in The Times, 1785–1820

pp 54-76

Part II - Courts and Records of Litigation

pp 77-200

5 - Reading Terminology in the Sources for the Early Common Law: Seisin, Simple and Not So Simple

pp 79-99

6 - ‘A Photograph of English Life?’: the Trustworthiness of the Thirteenth-Century Crown Pleas Rolls

pp 100-120

7 - Law, Lawyers, and Legal Records: Litigating and Practising Law in Late Medieval England

pp 121-138

8 - The Fees They Earned: the Incomes of William Staunford and Other Tudor Lawyers

pp 139-158

9 - The Fifteenth-Century Accounts of the Undersheriffs of Middlesex: an Unlikely Source for Legal History

pp 159-175

10 - Local Courts in Eastern Sussex, 1263–1835

pp 176-200

Part III - Images of the Law

pp 201-244

11 - Visualising Legal History: the Courts and Legal Profession in Image

pp 203-222

12 - The Engraved Facsimile by John Pine (1733) of the ‘Canterbury’ Magna Carta (1215)

pp 223-244

Part IV - Legal Practice and Legal Learning

pp 245-395

13 - The Abbess, the Empress and the ‘Constitutions of Clarendon’

pp 247-264