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This work charts the massive sixteenth-century increase in central court litigation and offers an explanation of it largely in terms of social change and the decline of local jurisdictions. At the same time, it argues that the period witnessed a major turning point in the relationship between the legal profession and English society.Brooks, C. W. is the author of 'Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth The Lower Branch of the Legal Profession in Early Modern England' with ISBN 9780521890830 and ISBN 0521890837.
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