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This book explores the careers and political activities of the doctors of civil law who were professionally active in England between the accession of King James I and the beginning of the Civil War.
The author's main purpose is to explain the remarkably strong and consistent support the civil lawyers gave to the first two Stuart kings. Emphasizing social, economic, and professional considerations, Dr. Levack studies the civil lawyers as officials in the King's government, victims of adverse professional circumstances, political theorists, critics of the common law, and defenders of the English Church.
A full scale portrait of an influential elite emerges that has not received the historical attention it deserves. A biographical dictionary, incorporating the results of extensive archival research, makes this a work of reference as well as a study of political behaviour.
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