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• Anglo-American Legal Tradition [Search]
  More than 9,250,000 frames of historical material from medieval and early modern England from the National Archives in London. Digitized and displayed through The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center.
• Bracton Online [Search]
  Bracton attempts to describe rationally the whole of English law, a task that was not again undertaken until Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England in the eighteenth century, searchable in both English and Latin (on Harvard Law School Library)
• Centre for English Legal History [Search]
  Within the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law.
• Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164 [Search]
  Full text of the Constitutions of Clarendon, a written statement by Henry II of England, made at Clarendon in 1164 to define the royal prerogatives as they existed before the anarchy of Stephen's reign (Internet History Sourcebooks Project)
• The Court of Chivalry 1634-1660 [Search]
  Details of the 738 surviving cases for this period on a case by case basis from the archives at the College of Arms in London and Arundel Castle, Sussex searchable by person, place or subject (on University of Birmingham)
• Irish Legal History Society [Search]
  Homepage
• Law Historic England : Courts and Courtrooms 2: Civil and Coroner’s Courts [Search]
  Monograph by Alan & Mary Brodie.
• Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) - Documents for Britain [Search]
  (on Arts & Humanities Research Council)
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913 [Search]
  Searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts between 1676 and 1772 which allows access to over 197,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn. (on Old Bailey Online)
• The Selden Society [Search]
  Homepage of the only learned society and publisher devoted entirely to English legal history.
• The Stair Society [Search]
  Homepage of Society founded in 1934 to encourage the study and to advance the knowledge of the history of Scots law.
• Welsh Legal History Society [Search]
  Homepage