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• Britain - History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents [Search]
  Contains links to UK historical documents including legal texts, conventions and official documents. (on Eurodocs)
• Britain - Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900) [Search]
  (on Arts & Humanities Research Council)
• Britain - United Kingdom Legislation 1215 - [Search]
  (on BaiLII)
• British Legal and Governmental Documents [Search]
  Annotated links to foundation documents of England and other common law countries maintained by R. Hacken for the Harold B Lee Library, Brigham Young University (on Eurodocs)
• England - Anglo-American Legal Tradition [Search]
  Documents 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
• England - Acts of the English Parliament 1267-1706 [Search]
  (on UK Parliament)
• England - Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain 1707 - 1800 [Search]
  (on UK Parliament)
• England - Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England [Search]
  Facsimile, context and English translation (on Harvard Law School Library)
• England - British History Parliamentary Reform [Search]
  (on Spartacus Educational)
• England - 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, Fordham University)
• England - Hansard Sittings in 19th Century [Search]
  (on UK Parliament)
• England - Magna Carta - the Great Charter [Search]
  Facsimile, full text translation and commentary (on British Library)
• England - Magna Carta 1215 [Search]
  Modern English translation (on Avalon Project, Lilian Goldman Law Library, Yale University)
• England - Medieval English Legal History [Search]
  An Index and Paraphrase of Printed English Year Book Reports by David Siepp, 1268–1535 (on Harvard Law School)
• England - Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913 [Search]
  Homepage with searchable transcripts of 100,000 criminal trials.
• England - Records of Courts of Law [Search]
  (in National Archives UK)
• England - Stratham's Abridgement of English Law [Search]
  (on Ames Foundation Digital Collection of Legal History, Harvard law School)
• England - The Constitutions of Clarendon 1164 [Search]
  English translation and commentary (on Avalon Project)
• England - The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640 [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)
• England - The Selden Society [Search]
  Homepage of the only learned society and publisher devoted entirely to English legal history.
• England - Treasures of the National Archives [Search]
  Facsimiles of originals held including many foundational documents such as the Magna Carta (on UK National Archives)
• Gibraltar - Law Reports [Search]
  Judgments since 1812 (on Government of Ginralter)
• Ireland - Acts of the Old Irish Parliament 1495-1800 [Search]
  (on UK Parliament)
• Ireland - Brehon Law Project [Search]
  Digital corpus of ancient Irish law and links to other sources (on Breton Aid)
• Ireland - Irish Legal History Society [Search]
  Homepage. Includes details of numerous scholarly works published by the Society.
• Jersey - All Judgments [Search]
  Case reports from 1830 onwards in several Jersey jurisdictions (on Jersey Legal Information Board)
• Jersey - Library of Legal Books and Texts [Search]
  Full texts of numerous scholarly works on aspects of Jersey legal history (on Jersey Legal Information Board)
• Scotland - Acts of the Old Scottish Parliament 1424-1707 [Search]
  (on UK Parliament)
• Scotland - Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature [Search]
  (CMEMILL)In collaboration with the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (on University of St Andrews)
• Scotland - Declaration of Arbroath [Search]
  Facsimile and English translation (on National Archives of Scotland)
• Scotland - Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 [Search]
  (on University of St Andrews)
• Scotland - Stair Society [Search]
  Scotland's leading legal history society since 1934. It has published 60 volumes of original documents of rarity and importance relating to the history of Scots Law. Has selected manuscripts online.
• Scottish Court of Session Records [Search]
  Case materials presented before the Court of Session, the highest civil court in Scotland, from 1757 to 1834 (on University of Virginia Law Library)
• Wales - Welsh Legal History Society [Search]
  Homepage.