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Wilfrid R. Prest. The Rise of the Barristers: A Social History of the English Bar 1590–1640. (Oxford Studies in Social History.) New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1986. Pp. xvi, 442. $62.00.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 July 2014
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1 This sense of context has become even more possible with the recent publication of two other major works on the English legal profession; see Ives, E. W., The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England: Thomas Kehell: A Case Study (Cambridge, 1983)CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Brooks, C. W., Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth: The “Lower Branch” of the Legal Profession in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1986)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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