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Sources of English Legal History: Public Law to 1750 is the definitive source book on the foundations of English public law. An extensive collection of illustrative original materials, it is a companion book to Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History: Private Law to 1750, 2e (OUP, 2010).

"I The English legal system under Elizabeth I I have lived through one Elizabethan age - so far - and spent part of my career time-travelling in the other. I can still dimly remember the euphoric optimism in the 1950s greeting the new Elizabethan age, and it has certainly proved as transformational a period in the nation's history as that of the first Elizabeth. Both queens have been greatly admired, and their loving subjects have seen changes beyond all imagination when they acceded to the throne. Their reigns are separated by an enormous distance of time. In theory, though, England was subject in both periods to the same common law. One does not need to be a historian to appreciate that this is the kind of theory which borders on fiction. After four centuries of evolution, the queen's courts and their proceedings look very different. But the theory does have a basis in truth. What it means is that there has been no sudden jurisprudential break, no Justinian or Napoleon, no Lenin or Mao, to disturb the legal continuity in England between the sixteenth century and the present. Elizabethan cases can still be cited, if they are relevant to some current question and have not been overruled or overtaken by later cases or statutes, though in the nature of things this is now rare"--

The legal character of Magna Carta -- Chapter 29 in the fourteenth century -- Magna Carta in the inns of court 1340-1540 -- Personal liberty and the church -- Royal prerogative and common law under Elizabeth I -- William Fleetwood and Magna Carta -- The resurgence of chapter 29 after 1580 -- Magna Carta and the rule of law 1592-1606 -- Sir Edward Coke and Magna Carta 1606-1615 -- "A year consecrate to justice" 1616 -- Myth and reality -- Appendices. Two Fifteenth-Century Readings on Chapter 29 -- Actions Founded on Chapter 29 (1501-32) -- William Fleetwood on Chapter 29 (c. 1558) -- Fleetwood's Tracts on Magna Carta and Statutes -- Six Elizabethan Cases (1582-1600) -- The Judges' Report on Habeas Corpus (1592) -- Coke's Memorandum on Chapter 29 (1604) -- Whetherly v. Whetherly (1605) -- Maunsell's Case (1607) -- Bulthorpe v. Ladbroke (1607)

Cover -- Content -- Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Part I The New Equality Agenda -- 1 New Challenges to an Unequal World -- An unequal world -- Responses to inequality -- Equality Studies as a response to inequality -- Guide to the rest of this book -- 2 Dimensions of Equality: A Framework for Theoryand Action -- The idea of equality -- Basic equality -- Liberal egalitarianism -- Equality of condition -- Applying the framework to social groups -- 3 The Centrality of Equality: Equality and Other Values -- Aspects of equality -- Freedom and equality

From Calcutta to Oxford -- Oxford, the Navy and the Liberals -- Starting out in the law -- Career changes for the better -- Hopes, disappointments, and Nigeria once again -- Life at the bar and another general election -- Starting on the bench -- A sporting chance