The rise of the barristers : a social history of the English bar, 1590-1640 / Wilfrid R. Prest.

Reconstructs the patterns of recruitment, training and mobility from the social origins and careers of some 500 lawyers in early modern England, while separate chapters explore the participation of barristers in the cultural, religious and political life of Elizabethan and early Stuart England.

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Main Author: Prest, Wilfrid R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1986.
Series:Oxford studies in social history.
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