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- Title
Remembering usurpation: the common lawyers, Reformation narratives and the prerogative, 1578-1616.
- Authors
Smith, David Chan
- Abstract
In a number of historical accounts Sir Edward Coke and other lawyers claimed that the common law had been a bulwark against popish encroachment prior to the Reformation. Anxiety over a renewal of clerical usurpation and a desire to preserve royal authority continued to inform their attitudes to the reformed English church courts. Although the common lawyers who wrote these histories shared several underlying assumptions, they nonetheless reached very different conclusions. By exposing these divisions and explaining common law attitudes towards the church courts and the prerogative, this article challenges received views on the 'common law mind'.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ENGLAND; USURPATION; COKE, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634; HISTORY of ecclesiastical courts; LAWYERS; COMMON law; REFORMATION; MORICE, James; OWEN, Roger, 1935-2018; HISTORY
- Publication
Historical Research, 2013, Vol 86, Issue 234, p619
- ISSN
0950-3471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-2281.12018