Wilfrid R. Prest AM is Professor Emeritus of History and of Law at the University of Adelaide, a senior fellow of Queen's College in the University of Melbourne, and a member of the Council of the Selden Society. He has published widely on the social history of law and lawyers in early modern England.

'Written with a mastery of the subject that only experience and long familiarity with scholarship can give, the second edition shows the same enthusiasm for the subject as the original work. The admirable precision in its details is coupled with a plain and highly enjoyable prose, which will no doubt captivate the reader.' Guido Rossi, H-Net Reviews

• 1. Dimensions; 2. The quality of membership; 3. Ranks of membership; 4. Administration and government; 5. Discipline and disorder; 6. Learning the law; 7. Legal and liberal education; 8. Papists; 9. Preachers, puritans and the religion of lawyers; 10. The Inns of Court and the English revolution.

Wilfrid R. Prest AM is Professor Emeritus of History and of Law at the University of Adelaide, a senior fellow of Queen's College in the University of Melbourne, and a member of the Council of the Selden Society. He has published widely on the social history of law and lawyers in early modern England.

'Written with a mastery of the subject that only experience and long familiarity with scholarship can give, the second edition shows the same enthusiasm for the subject as the original work. The admirable precision in its details is coupled with a plain and highly enjoyable prose, which will no doubt captivate the reader.' Guido Rossi, H-Net Reviews

• 1. Dimensions; 2. The quality of membership; 3. Ranks of membership; 4. Administration and government; 5. Discipline and disorder; 6. Learning the law; 7. Legal and liberal education; 8. Papists; 9. Preachers, puritans and the religion of lawyers; 10. The Inns of Court and the English revolution.

Wilfrid R. Prest AM is Professor Emeritus of History and of Law at the University of Adelaide, a senior fellow of Queen's College in the University of Melbourne, and a member of the Council of the Selden Society. He has published widely on the social history of law and lawyers in early modern England.

'Written with a mastery of the subject that only experience and long familiarity with scholarship can give, the second edition shows the same enthusiasm for the subject as the original work. The admirable precision in its details is coupled with a plain and highly enjoyable prose, which will no doubt captivate the reader.' Guido Rossi, H-Net Reviews

• 1. Dimensions; 2. The quality of membership; 3. Ranks of membership; 4. Administration and government; 5. Discipline and disorder; 6. Learning the law; 7. Legal and liberal education; 8. Papists; 9. Preachers, puritans and the religion of lawyers; 10. The Inns of Court and the English revolution.