. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . were disguisedin some anticpie garb. A new and a moreliterary period seems tobe beomniu in the latterhalf of the fifteenth cen-tury, when Sir John For-tescue, the LancastrianChief Justice, writing forthe world at large, con-trasts the constitutionalkingship of Enghmd withthe absoluti monarchy ofFrance, and Sir ThomasLittleton, a Justice inthe (ourt of (_()nnnonPleas, Avriting for students of English law, pu
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . were disguisedin some anticpie garb. A new and a moreliterary period seems tobe beomniu in the latterhalf of the fifteenth cen-tury, when Sir John For-tescue, the LancastrianChief Justice, writing forthe world at large, con-trasts the constitutionalkingship of Enghmd withthe absoluti monarchy ofFrance, and Sir ThomasLittleton, a Justice inthe (ourt of (_()nnnonPleas, Avriting for students of English law, pulJishes his lu<id and classical book onthe tenure of luul. Hut the liopi-s of a renascence are hardlyfulfilled. Li the sixteentii ccuturv manv famous lawvers. TOMB OP SUl OOIIX 1-OllTKSCLi;.( Church.) TIIK BEGINNINGS OF MUDIJUN ENGLAND. Growth of the Judicial System. adilril to their fame by publishing reports of decided cases andby making abridgments of the old reports, and a few littletreatises were compiled; but in general the lawyer seems to thinkthat he has done all for jurisprudence that can be done when hehas collected his materials under a number of rubrics alpha-bctii-dly arranged. The alphabet is the one clue to the in the days of Elizabeth and James I. Sir Edward Coke,the incarnate connnon law, shovels out his enormous learningin Aast disorderly heaps. (arlyles felicity has for owv stamjiedupon Coke the adjective •?tough—-tough old Coke niionLittleton, one of the toughest men ever made. We may welltransfer the word from the man to the law that was personifiedin him. The English common law was tough, one of thetoughest tilings ever made. And well for England was it inthe days of Tudors and SMiarts
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