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The High Court of Chivalry in the early seventeenth century

Between 1634 and its temporary abolition by the Long Parliament in 1640 the Court of Chivalry was established on a regular basis for the first time in its history. Evidence survives for 738 of well over a thousand cases that the court processed during this period.

James I’s anti-duelling campaign

The Earl Marshal and the reform of the court

The court under Charles I

Reay v Ramsey

The civil lawyers

The litigants

The collapse of the court

Charles I’s anti-duelling campaign

Bibliography