Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth: The 'Lower Branch' of the Legal Profession in Early Modern England

by C.W. Brooks

Book Overview

Historians have long recognized that members of the lower branch of the legal profession, the ancestors of the modern solicitors, played an important part in early modern English society, but difficulties in establishing their identities and recovering their career patterns have hitherto left them virtually unstudied. This work charts the massive sixteenth-century increase in central court litigation and offers an explanation of it largely in terms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521890837
• ISBN13: 9780521890830
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.5"