The rule of law : 1603-1660 : crowns, courts and judges / by Hart, James S.

Law, politics and society in early modern England / by Brooks, C. W.

Table of Contents: “…English history and the history of English law 1485-1642 -- Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors -- The initiatives of the crown and the break from rome -- Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century -- The politics of jurisdiction I : the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560-c. 1610 -- The politics of jurisdiction II : multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority -- The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject : law and political controversy in the 1620s -- The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629-1642 -- Law and 'community' -- The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law -- Economic and tenurial relationships -- The household and its members -- The person, the community and the state.…”

A nation transformed : England after the Restoration /

Table of Contents: “…Republicanism, the politics of necessity and the rule of law /…”