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• Our Legal Heritage: King Aethelbert - King George III, 600 AD-1776 (4th edition, 2002), by S. A. Reilly (Gutenberg text)
• Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years, 600-1600 (second edition, 1999), by S. A. Reilly (Gutenberg text)
• The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (second edition), by Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster
• Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John (second edition, revised and in part rewritten; Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1914), by William Sharp McKechnie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Select bills in eyre, A.D. 1292-1333 (B. Quaritch, 1914), by Curia Regis (England) and William Craddock Bolland (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Angleterre comparée a la France sous les rapports constitutionnels, légaux, judiciaires, religieux, commerciaux, industriels, fiscaux, scientifiques, matériels, etc. (Courcier, 1851), by Ancien avocat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on the constitution and laws of England : with a commentary on Magna Charta, and illustrations of many of the English statutes (Printed by Thomas B. Wait and co., 1805), by Francis Stoughton Sullivan, Gilbert Stuart, and Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• English law and the Renaissance : with some notes (Lawbook Exchange, 2000), by Frederic William Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The enforcement of the laws against heresy in England in the fifteenth century (1910), by Oliver Sherman Hubbart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines of English legal history (Butterworth, 1899), by A. T. Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of English law before the time of Edward I. (University press;, 1899), by Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cases and materials on the development of legal institutions. ([New York], 1930), by Julius Goebel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pages de l'histoire du droit en Angleterre. Le droit romain, le droit des gens et le Collège des docteurs en droit civil. (Bruxelles, 1910), by Ernest Nys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John: With an Historical Introduction, by William Sharp McKechnie (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Law and the Renaissance: The Rede Lecture for 1901, by Frederic William Maitland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776, by S. A. Reilly (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776: June 2011 (Sixth) Edition, by S. A. Reilly (Gutenberg ebook)
• Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First, by William Blackstone (Gutenberg ebook)
• Our Legal Heritage, King AEthelbert, 596 to King George III, 1775, by S. A. Reilly (Gutenberg ebook)
• Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England (New York: NYU Press, 2019), by Kathryn D. Temple (JSTOR ebook)

• The ancient practical laws of England, compared with the laws now practised, to the great grievance of the free-born subject; by an ancient practising barrister at law, who for the greatest part of seventeen years last past, hath been a prisoner of the King's-Bench, Fleet, and other prisons, unjustly confined under undue practices, mentioned in eight of the ten paragraphs underwritten. ([London : s.n., 1700?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Outlines of English legal history (Butterworth, 1899), by A. T. Carter (page images at HathiTrust)

• An act for the taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries : At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, Anno Domini, 1656. (Printed by Henry Hills and John Fields ..., 1657), by England and Wales and England and Wales Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)

• An act for the sessions of assizes to be held and kept in the castle of Lancaster : upon Wednesday the 5̳th day of Septemb. next ensuing. (Printed for Edward Husband ..., 1649), by England and Wales and England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der rechtsgeschichte (Tauchnitz, 1846), by Friedrich August Biener (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Church courts: an historical inquiry into the status of the ecclesiastical courts. (Hatchards, 1882), by Lewis T. Dibdin (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke (3 volumes; Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003), by Edward Coke, ed. by Steve Sheppard (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)
• Britton (Clarendon Press, 1865), by Francis Morgan Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law. (Little, 1881), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Serjeant Stephen's new commentaries on the laws of England : (partly founded on Blackstone). (s.n.], 1886), by Henry John Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Angleterre comparée a la France sous les rapports constitutionnels, légaux, judiciaires, religieux, commerciaux, industriels, fiscaux, scientifiques, matériels, etc. (Courcier, 1851), by Ancien avocat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institutiones juris Anglicani, ad methodum et seriem institutionum imperialium compositæ & digestæ : opus non solum juris Anglicani romanique in hoc regno studiosis, sed omnibus qui politeian & consuetudines inclyti nostri imperii penitus scire cupiunt, utile & accommodum (Cura & impensis W. Hall, pro Ed. Forrest in Oxon, 1664), by John Cowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogues between a doctor of divinity, and a student in the laws of England (Printed by S. Richardson and C. Lintot for J. Worrall, 1761), by Christopher Saint German and John Worrall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inquest jurymen : an enquiry into the nature and duties of the office of inquest jurymen of the city of London ; together with the by-laws of the common council, and the articles of charge. Also constables, leet and annoyance jury, for the city of Westminster, shewing the nature and duties of their office, and the general laws respecting defective weights and measures, for counties, liberties and divisions of England and Wales. (Knight and Lacey, 1825), by Joseph Newell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das bürgerliche recht Englands; Hrsg. von der Internationalen Vereinigung für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft u. volksvirtschaftslehre zu Berlin. Kodifikation von Edward Jenks ... (carl Heymanns, 1906), by Gustav Schirrmeister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act of state in English law. (Murray, 1906), by W. Harrison Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractatvs de legibus & consuetudinibus regni Angliæ, tempore regis Henrici Secundi compositus, iusticiæ gubernacula tenente illustri viro Ranvlpho de Glanvilla iuris regni & antiquarum consuetudinum eo tempore peritissimo. Et illas solum leges continet & consuetudines secundum quas placitatur in Curia regis ad Scaccarium & coram insticijs vbicunque fuerint. Qui nunc imprimitur post 50. annos à priori & prima impressione, quia in pluribus concordat cum antiquo libro legum Scotie vocato Regiam maiestatem precipuè in locis hoc signo notatis. Cum diuersis manuscriptis nuper examinatis: cum duplici indice; vno alphabetice in principio libri; altero summorum capitulorum in fine. (in ædibus Thomæ Wight, 1604), by Ranulf de Glanville (page images at HathiTrust)
• At the Parliament begunne and holden at Westminster, the xxiij. day of Nouember ... (Imprinted by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie, 1585), by England and Wales, Christopher Barker, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch des Englischen Privatrechtes (T. Weicher, 1917), by Sigmund Karplus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A translation of Glanville, by Ranulf de Glanville, trans. by John Beames, contrib. by Joseph Henry Beale (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Law and the Poor, by Edward Abbott Parry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First, by William Blackstone (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fleta. (Londini : Typis M.F. prostant apud Guilielmum, Mathæum Walbancke, & Danielem Pakeman, 1647), by John Selden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ the posthumous works of Sir Henry Spelman, Kt., relating to the laws and antiquities of England : publish'd from the original manuscripts : with the life of the author. (Oxford : Printed at the Theater for Awnsham and John Churchill ..., 1698), by Henry Spelman and Edmund Gibson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The excellency and præheminence of the lavv of England, above all other humane lawes in the world asserted in a learned reading upon the statute of 35 to 8. Cap. 6 : concerning tryals by jury of twelve men and tales be circumstanibus / by Thomas Williams ... (London : Printed by the assigns of R. and E. Atkins ... for Norman Nelson ..., 1680), by Thomas Williams, Matthew Hale, Thomas Risden, and Gray's Inn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Case of Edward Bushel, John Hammond, Charles Milson and John Baily, citizens and free-men of London, stated and humbly presented to the honourable House of Commons assemb'ed in Parliament ([London? : s.n., 1670?]), by Edward Bushel (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the supream authority, the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England.: The humble petition of divers well-affected people, inhabiting the city of London and places adjacent; in behalf of the Common-wealth. ([London : s.n., 1651]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A New case put to an old lawyer, or, Lawyers look about you, for the case is altered quoth Ployden.: At a conference held by Prag a slitter of causes, and Prog an attorneys clark of the one part, and Boldface a barrater; alias a bargisters puny, and Hold-case a dependant to the chancery, of the other part. Concerning those two honorable and conscientious courts, viz. committees of grievances and of referrees; where causes are ended with all speed, and without bribes or fees, to the grief of most lawyers and their clarks. (London : Printed for William Ley, and are to be sold at his shop at Pauls-Chane, 1656) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The lavvyers bane. Or The lawes reformation, and new modell:: vvherein the errours and corruptions both of the lawyers and of the law it selfe are manifested and declared. And also, some short and profitable considerations laid down for the redresse of them. (London : Printed for George Whittington, at the blew Anchor in Cornehill, neer the Royall Exchange, 1647), by Benjamin Nicholson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The principles of law reduced to practice.: By W. Phillipps. (London : Printed for Hen. Twyford, Thomas Dring, and Iohn Place, and are to be sold at their shops, 1660), by W. Phillipps (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The young lawyer's recreation being a choice collection of several pleasant cases, passages, and customs in the law for the entertainment as well as profit of the reader. (London : Printed for Samuel Briscoe ..., 1694), by Philonomus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Explanation of the old oath of legeance. (London : Printed by R.B. and are to be sold by G. Badger ..., 1641), by Robert Powell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Questions propounded, or Quæres, concerning remedies, and taking away of the extreame and unnecessary charges, expences, troubles, and long delayes in just causes and suits in courts of equity and others called English-Courts,: and abating those that may be for contention and trouble only, and the preservation of many honest men from great losses, and others from undoing therby, without hindrance or prejudice to any but unnecessary and upstart officers. And how many hundred thousand pounds may be saved to the common-wealth yearly, by reducing proceedings in law to the old and legall proceedings, and taking away those that be unlawfull and contrived by exacting officers for their own only gaine. Authorized to be printed and published for the good of the common-wealth. (London : Printed by F. Leach, 1647) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A plea for the peoples good old cause: Or, The fundamental lawes and liberties of England asserted, proved, and acknowledged, to be our right before the Conquest, and by above 30 Parliaments, and by the late King Charls; and by the Parliament and their army in their severall declarations in their particular streights and differences.: By way of answer to Mr. James Harrington his cxx. political aphorismes, in his second edition. By Capt. William Bray. (London : Printed by J.C. and are to be sold by Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle near Temple-Barr, 1659), by William Bray (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Institutiones juris Anglicani. English (London : Printed by Tho. Roycroft for Jo. Ridley ..., 1651), by John Cowell and W. G. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for enabling judges to hold an assize at Durham.: Wednesday July 13. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Tho. St Nicholas Clerk of Parliament. (London : printed by John Field, printer to the Parliament. And are to be sold at the seven Stars in Fleetstreet, over against Dunstans Church, 1659), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act for holding an assize for the County of Lancaster.: Friday, August 5. 1659. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Tho. St Nicholas, Clerk of the Parliament. (London : printed by John Field, printer to the Parliament. And are to be sold at the seven Stars in Fleetstreet, over against Dunstans Church, 1659), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laws, etc. (London : Printed by John Streater, James Flesher, and Henry Twyford, assigns of Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns, Esquires ..., 1666), by England and Wales, Edmund Wingate, and Thomas Manby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Public General Acts. 1553-1555. 1-2 Philip and Mary ([Excusum Londini : in ædibus Iohannis Cawodi, tipographi Regiæ Maiestatis, anno M. D. LV. [1555]]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1553-1558 : Mary I), Mary Queen of England, and Philip King of Spain (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Public General Acts. 1559-1560. 1 Elizabeth I ([London : R. Jugge and J. Cawood], Anno. 1.5.5.9), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1558-1603 : Elizabeth I) and Elizabeth Queen of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Exact book of entries, of the most select judiciall vvrits used in the common-law.: Translated from the originall manuscript, which was collected by the hands of that eminent clerk, Robert Moyle Esq; late one of the prothonotaries of the Court of Common-Bench. A work of much industry, as may appeare by the authors great paines in quoting of book-cases, opinions of judges, number rolls, and many other requisites, for the confirmation of every entry, whereof none have been ever published before. Printed now for the use and benefit of all, but aimed most especially for such as are most conversant in the common-law. By J.H. Gent. With a perfect table in which may be found the principall matters therein contained. (London : Printed for Robert Crofts at the Crown in Chancery-lane, under Sergeants-Inne, 1658), by J. H. and Robert Moyle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A brief collection of certain instances of Holy Scripture, and ancient laws of England concurring against persecution, oppression and injustice, recomended to the serious consideration of all sincere friends to the King and kingdom / by William Holgate. ([London? : s.n.], 1686), by William Holgate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An experimentall essay touching the reformation of the lavves of England anno 1648.: By an impartiall well-willer to the peace and well-beeing of all. (London : Printed by Matthew Simmons in Aldersgate-streete, 1648), by Impartiall well-willer to the peace and well-beeing of all (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Judge Jenkins remonstrance to the Lords and Commons of the two Houses of Parliament at Westminster, the 21. of February, 1647.: By David Jenkins prisoner in Newgate. (London : [s.n.], Re-printed in the year, 1660), by David Jenkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Pacis consultum:: a directory to the publick peace: briefly describing, the antiquity, extent, practice and jurisdiction of several countrey-corporation-courts; especially, the court leet. An exact and perfect method to keep a court of survey for the setting forth and bounding of the mannors, lands, and tenements; with the articles to be therein given in charge: a work most useful: of which subject, never was any thing printed before. An abstract of the penal statutes, useful for all men to know. Also some difficult questions in law, proposed unto, and resolved / by Judge Jenkings. (Printed at London : by J.C. for H. Fletcher, at the three gilt-cups, neer the west-end of Pauls, 1657), by David Jenkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Judges judged out of their own mouthes: or the question resolved by Magna charta, &c. Who have been Englands enemies, kings seducers, and peoples destroyers, from Hen. 3. to Hen. 8. and before and since. Stated by Sr. Edvvard Coke, Knt. late L. Chief Justice of England. Expostulated, and put to the vote of the people, by J. Jones, Gent. Whereunto is added eight observable points of law, executable by justices of peace. (London : Printed by W. Bently, and are to be sold by E. Dod, and N. Ekins, at the Gun in Ivy-Lane, MDCL. [1650]), by J. Jones, Edward Coke, and England. Magna Charta (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Jurors judges of law and fact: or, certain observations of certain differences in points of law between a certain reverend judg, called Andr. Horn, and an uncertain author of a certain paper, printed by one Francis Neale this year 1650. styled, A letter of due censure and redargution to Lievt. Col. John Lilburn, touching his tryall at Guild-Hall, London in Octob. 1649. subscribed H.P. Written by John Jones, gent. Not for any vindication of Mr. Lilburn against any injury which the said author doth him, who can best vindicate himself by due cours of law; if not rather leav it to God whose right is to revenge the wrongs of his servants. Nor of my self, but of what I have written much contrary to the tenents of this letter; and for the confirmation of the free people of England, that regard their libertie, propertie, and birthright, to beleev and stand to the truth that I have written, so far as they shall finde it ratified by the lawes of God and this land; and to beware of flatterers that endevor to seduce them under colour of good counsel, to betray their freedoms to perpetual slavery. ([London] : Printed by W.D. for T.B. & G.M. at the three Bibles in Pauls church-yard, near the west end, [1650]), by John Jones (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Lex Parlamentorum: or, An abstract of the antiquity and jurisdiction of the High court of Parliament,: according to the lawes and constitutions of this realme. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1648) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The clerks guide leading into three parts, viz. I. Of indentures, leases, &c., II. Letters of attorney, warrants of attorney, mortgages, licences, charter-parties, &c., III. Bills, answers, replications, rejoynders in chancery, &c., under which are comprehended the most unusual forms of clerkship : to which is added, a fourth part of fines, recoveries, statutes, recognisances, judgements, &c. distresses and replevins : illustrated with cases, and the statutes relating to the same / by Tho. Manley of the Middle Temple, London, Esq. (London : Printed by John Streater, Henry Twyford, and E. Flesher, assigns of Richard Atkins and Edward Atkins, Esquires, 1672), by Thomas Manley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The clerk of assize, judges-marshall, and cryer: being the true manner and form of the proceedings at the assizes and generall goale-delivery, both in the Crown Court, and Nisi Prius Court, and the right wayes of entering of all pleas, verdicts, judgments, and orders in either of the said courts. To which is added an ancient brief tract of the common lawes of England, written in Latine. / By T.W. (London : Printed for Timothy Twyford, and are to be sold at his shop within the Inner Temple Gate, 1660), by T. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Englands compleat law-judge, and lawyer.: Declared in these ensuing heads; 1. Whether that law and those judges and practizers owned time out of minde by the supreme authority of the nation, be not the laws, judges, and lawyers of this Common-wealth, &c. 2. Whether courts so constituted are not records of the nation. 3. Whether each court hath not power, as such, to enforce its owne decrees. 4. That the decrees and usages of such a court are as valid as of any court. 5. Whether it be not against reason, that when divers courts in the same nation act by divers lawes, one of the courts should have power to prohibit the other to proceed to bring the matters in difference before it self. 6. Concerning judges of appeale. (London : Printed for Edmund Paxton at Pauls-chaine over against the Castle-Taverne, 1656 [i.e. 1655]), by Charles George Cock and Thomas Paget (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laws, etc. (London : Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Tho. Newcomb, deceased ..., and by W. Rawlins and S. Roycroft ..., 1699), by England and Wales and Joseph Washington (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Public General Acts. 1216-1547. (Anno. 1563. Imprinted at London : in Fletestréete by Thomas Powell, [1563]), by England and Wales and Henry King of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Public General Acts. 1536-1537. 28 Hen.VIII ([London] : Tho. Berthelet Regis impressor excudebat, cum priuilegio, [1545?]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII) and Henry King of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The modern assurancer, or The clarks directory.: Containing the practick part of the law, in the exact formes and draughts of all manner of presidents for bargaines, and sales, grants, feossments, bonds, bills, conditions, covenants, joyntures, indentures; to lead the uses of fines and recoveries, with good provisoes, covenants to stand seised, charter-parties for ships, leases, releases, surrenders, &c. And all other instruments and assurances now in use: intended for all young studients and practizers of the lavv. / By J.H. With an exact table wherein may be found the principall matters therein contained. (London : Printed for Henry Twyford, and are to be sold at his Shop in Vine-Court Middle-Temple, and Nath. Brook at the Angel in Cornhill, 1658), by John Herne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Laws, etc. (London : Printed for Mathew Walebancke, May 30, 1644), by England and Wales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Topicks in the laws of England, containing media apt for argument, and resolution of law cases ... (London : Printed by R.L. for William Leake and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1646), by John Clayton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A legal examination of abuses of law concerning forcible entry, imprisonment without warrant, riots, routs and unlawful assemblies, the publick peace, and breach of it, oppression and duress by goals & goalers, &c. : clearly evincing the abuse and illegality done in the prosecution against the people called Quakers in the city of Bristol, both by statute & common-law, reason and approved authorities. (London : Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle ..., 1682) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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