The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court

Margaret McGlynn examines legal education at the Inns of Court in the late fifteenth/early sixteenth century.

Margaret McGlynn (Author)

9780521187695, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 December 2010

362 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

Review of the hardback: '… an informative, detailed and careful history of a complex area of law.' The Cambridge Law Journal

Between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century Prerogativa Regis, a central text of fiscal feudalism, was introduced into the curriculum of the Inns of Court, developed, and then abandoned. This book argues that while lawyers often turned their attention to the text when political and financial issues brought it to the fore, they sought to maintain an intellectual consistency and coherence in the law. Discussions of both substance and procedure demonstrate how readers reflected the concerns of their time in the topics they chose to consider and how they drew on the learning of both their predecessors and their peers at the Inns. The first study based primarily on readings, this book threw light on legal education, early Tudor financial and administrative procedure, and the relationship between the ways that law was made, taught and used.

Introduction
1. The early readings
2. Expansion and debate: Thomas Frowyk and Robert Constable
3. Frowyk and Constable on Primer Seisin
4. Spelman, Yorke and the campaign against uses
5. The Edwardian readers and beyond
Conclusion
Appendices: Thomas Frowyk's Reading on Prerogativa Regis, cc. 1-3
John Spelman's Reading on Prerogativa Regis, cc. 1-3.

Subject Areas: Constitutional & administrative law [LND], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], British & Irish history [HBJD1]