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L o n g b o t t o m Th o m a s P a i n e a n d t h e I d e a o f H Law, Lawyers and Litigants u m a in Early Modern England n R i g Essays in Memory of h t s Christopher W. Brooks Edited by Michael Lobban, Joanne Begiato and Adrian Green LAW, LAWYERS AND LITIGANTS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND WritteninmemoryofChristopherW.Brooks,thiscollectionofessaysby prominenthistoriansexaminesandbuildsonthescholarlylegacyofthe leading historian of early modern English law, society and politics. Brooks’sworkputlegalcultureandlegalconsciousnessatthecentreof our understanding of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English society, and the English common law tradition. The essays presented here develop a number of strands found in his work and take them in newdirections.Theyshednewlightoncentraldebatesinthehistoryof thecommonlaw,exploringhowlawwasunderstoodandusedbydifferent communities in early modern England, and examining how and why people engaged (or did not engage) in litigation. The volume also containstwohithertounpublishedessaysbyChristopherBrooks,which considertherelationshipbetweenlawandreligionandbetweenlawand politicalrevolutioninseventeenth-centuryEngland. michaellobbanistheauthorofanumberofworksoneighteenth-and nineteenth-century English legal history. He was a colleague of Christopher Brooks at Durham University and co-edited the volume CommunityandCourtsinBritain1150–1900(1997)withhim. joanne begiato has published widely in the history of emotions, material culture, masculinities, family, parenting and marriage. Her PhDwassupervisedbyChristopherBrooksatDurhamUniversity. adriangreenstudiesthehistoryofbuildings–especiallytherelation- ship between architecture and society in England and English America between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution. His PhD in Archaeology and History was supervised by Matthew H. Johnson and ChristopherW.BrooksatDurhamUniversity. L A W , L A W Y E R S A N D L I T I G A N T S I N E A R L Y M O D E R N E N G L A N D Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Brooks Edited by MICHAEL LOBBAN LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience JOANNE BEGIATO OxfordBrookesUniversity ADRIAN GREEN DurhamUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi–110025, India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108491723 DOI:10.1017/9781108666862 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2019 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2019 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Brooks,C.W.,honouree.|Begiato,Joanne,editor.|Green,Adrian(AdrianGareth), editor.|Lobban,Michael,editor. Title:Law,lawyers,andlitigantsinearlymodernEngland:essaysinmemoryofChristopher W.Brooks/editedbyJoanneBegiato(OxfordBrookesUniversity),AdrianGreen (UniversityofDurham),MichaelLobban(LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPolitical Science). Description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress, [2019]|Includesbibliographicalreferences. Identifiers:LCCN2018058899|ISBN9781108491723 Subjects:LCSH:Brooks,C.W.|Practiceoflaw–England–History.|Law–England– History.|Lawyers–England–History.|Religionandlaw–England–History. Classification:LCCKD474.L392019|DDC349.4209/03–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018058899 ISBN978-1-108-49172-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. CONTENTS ListofFigures pagevii ListofTables viii ListofContributors ix 1. Introduction 1 michael lobban, joanne begiato and adrian green 2. ChristopherBrooks’sContributiontoEarlyModern History 11 michael j. braddick 3. Law,Law-ConsciousnessandLawyersasConstitutiveof EarlyModernEngland:ChristopherW.Brooks’sSingular Journey 32 david sugarman 4. ‘TheHardRindofLegalHistory’:F.W.Maitlandandthe WritingofLateMedievalandEarlyModernBritishSocial History 58 r. a. houston 5. FountainsofJustice:JamesI,CharlesIandEquity 79 r. w. hoyle 6. TheInnsofCourt,RenaissanceandtheLanguageof Modernity 114 phil withington 7. TheMicro-SpatialDynamicsofLitigation:TheChilvers CotonTitheDispute,Barrowsvs.Archer(1657) 140 steve hindle v vi contents 8. ‘Law-Mindedness’:Crowds,CourtsandPopularKnowledge oftheLawinEarlyModernEngland 164 john walter 9. LocalLaws,LocalPrinciples:TheParadoxesofLocalLegal ProcessesinEarlyModernEngland 185 peter rushton 10. ‘SoNowYouAreWedEnough’:ClandestineUnionsinthe North-WestofEnglandintheFirstHalfoftheEighteenth Century 207 joanne begiato 11. ‘BlunderersandBlottersoftheLaw?’TheRiseof ConveyancingintheEighteenthCenturyandLong-Term Socio-LegalChange 229 craig muldrew 12. EnglandandAmerica:TheRoleoftheJusticeofthePeacein CountyDurham,England,andRichmondCounty, Virginia,intheEighteenthCentury 254 gwenda morgan 13. LawandArchitectureinEarlyModernDurham 265 adrian green 14. LawandRevolution:TheSeventeenth-CenturyEnglish Example 292 christopher w. brooks 15. ReligionandLawinEarlyModernEngland 327 christopher w. brooks ABibliographyoftheWorksof ChristopherW.Brooks 366 Index 369 FIGURES 6.1 ‘Modern’onEnglishtitlepages,EEBO–TCPtextsandEEBO–TCPcontentto 1599. page 129 6.2 NumberofEnglishvernacularprintedtextsonEEBO–TCPcontaining ‘modern’andbylegallyeducatedauthors,1530–1590s. 129 6.3 Appearancesof‘modern’inEnglishvernacularprintedtextsinEEBO–TCP andintextsbylegallyeducatedauthors,1530s–1590s. 130 6.4 NumberofEnglishvernacularprintedtextscontaining‘modern’from translationsandbycountry,1530s–1590s. 131 6.5 Percentagesoftextswith‘modern’bylegallyeducatedauthors, 1530s–1590s. 132 13.1 SketchplanofDurhamChancerycourtbyGeorgeOrmsby, 1907. 282 13.2 DurhamCastle,inBishopCrewe’stime(1674–1721),showingthejudges lodgings(firstbuiltbyBishopNeile,1617–1627)facingtheterracedwalkscut intothekeepmoundbyBishopCosin(1660–1672). 285 13.3 TheMickletons’greathouse,PalaceGreen.Originallytwostoreyswhenfirst builtc.1695. 287 13.4 1SouthBailey,Durham.Lawyer’shouseandoffice,builtforWilliamPye, 1735. 288 vii TABLES 11.1 YearlyvalueofmortgagedeedstransactedbyJohnCannon, 1736–1742. page 242 11.2 EstimatedvalueperacreofmortgageloansarrangedbyJohn Cannon. 243 viii
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