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THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND; from the time of the Conquest.
By Edward Foss, F. S. A.
"It supplies what was much wanted—a regular and progressive account of English legal institutions. The result is a correction of many errors, an addition of much new information, and a better general view of our strictly legal history than any other jurist, historian, or biographer had heretofore attempted to give."—Examiner.
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