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Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar 1680 - 1730


ISBN13: 9780198221555
ISBN: 019822155X
Published: May 1990
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £170.00



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This is an analysis of English barristers and the Inns of Court in the period 1680-1730. The four Inns of Court have constituted the principal institutional home of common lawyers since medieval times, and by the early modern period were regarded as a ""third university"".

Barristers were the pre-eminent professional men of Augustan England. In parliament, they played a disproportionate role in the business of the commons.;David Lemmings traces the history of the Inns and the barristers during an important period of transition. He shows how the Inns declined from their former splendour during the later 17th century until, by the reign of George II, they were principally dormitories and offices for a mass of non-lawyers, and comfortable dining clubs for a minority of their members. At the same time, the number of practising barristers fell.

The processes of professionalization among different occupational groups are of increasing historical interest. ""Gentlemen and barristers"" is a thorough analysis of a major profession at a significant stage of its development. Dr Lemmings exploits contemporary material, including the archives of the Inns of Courts. His 12 appendices, detail the business and finances of the barristers.

The history of the Inns and the barristers necessarily touches upon many aspects of life in this period, including commerce, high politics and elite culture. The story of the lawyers and their Inns offers a fresh perspective on England under the last Stuarts and first Hanoverians.

Subjects:
Legal History, Inns of Court
Contents:
The student body of the Inns of Court
resident and finance - the transformation of the Inns of Court community
the quantity and "quality" of barristers
formal and informal legal education
the practising bar - practice professional development
the practising bar - reputation, wealth and social development
barristers in parliament
the pattern of preferment.

Series: Oxford Historical Monographs 

£177.50