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The High Court of Chivalry in the early seventeenth century

Bibliography

For an up to date account of the political background:

R.P. Cust, Charles I. A Political Life (Harlow, 2005)

On the High Court of Chivalry:

G.D. Squibb, The High Court of Chivalry (Oxford, 1959)

P.H Hardacre, ‘The Earl Marshal, the Heralds and the House of Commons, 1604-1641’, International Review of History, 2 (1957)

M.H. Keen, Origins of the English Gentleman (Stroud, 2002), chp. 2

R.P. Cust and A.J. Hopper (eds), Cases in the High Court of Chivalry 1634-1640 (Harleian Society, new series, 18, 2006)

G.D. Squibb, Reports of Heraldic Cases in the Court of Chivalry 1623-1732 (Harleian Society, 107, 1956)

F.W. Steer (ed), A Catalogue of the Earl Marshal’s Papers at Arundel Castle (Harleian Society, 115-16, 1963-4).

On the legal background:

B.P. Levack, The Civil Lawyers in England 1603-1641. A Political Study (Oxford, 1973).

T.G. Barnes, ‘Star chamber litigants and their counsel, 1596-1641, in J.H. Baker (ed), Legal Records and the Historian (London, 1978)

W.J. Jones, The Elizabethan Court of Chancery (Oxford, 1967)

T. Stretton, Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England (Cambridge, 1998)

On duelling:

M. Peltonen, The Duel in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2003)

A. Stewart, ‘Purging Troubled Humours : Bacon, Northampton and the anti duelling campaign of 1613-1614’ in S. Clucas and R. Davies (eds), The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament (Aldershot, 2003)

R.P. Cust and A.J. Hopper, ‘Violence and gentry honour in early Stuart England ; the Court of Chivalry and duelling’, in S. Carroll (ed), Cultures of Violence (Basingstoke, 2007)