1. Year book men David J. Seipp; 2. Errores in camera Scaccarii David Ibbetson; 3. Law reporting in the seventeenth century W. H. Bryson; 4. The law of contracts as reported in The Times, 1785–1820 James Oldham; 5. Reading terminology in the sources for the early common law: seisin, simple and not so simple John Hudson; 6. 'A photograph of English life'?: the trustworthiness of the thirteenth-century crown pleas rolls Henry Summerson; 7. Law, lawyers and legal records: litigating and practising law in late medieval England Jonathan Rose; 8. The fees they earned: the incomes of William Staunford and other Tudor lawyers Nigel Ramsay; 9. The fifteenth-century accounts of the undersheriffs of Middlesex: an unlikely source for legal history Susanne Brand; 10. Local courts in Eastern Sussex, 1263–1835 Christopher Whittick; 11. Visualising legal history: the courts and legal profession in image Anthony Musson; 12. The engraved facsimile by John Pine (1733) of the 'Canterbury' Magna Carta (1215) Simon Keynes; 13. The abbess, the empress and the 'Constitutions of Clarendon' Elisabeth van Houts; 14. The Tractatus de antiquo dominico corone ascribed to Anger of Ripon Paul Brand; 15. Another way of doing manuscript catalogues? Charles Donahue, Jr; 16. Common opinion in the fourteenth century: before the common learning, before the Inns of Court Ian Williams; 17. Henry Sherfield's reading on wills (1624) and trusts in the form of a use upon a use N. G. Jones; 18. Civilians in the common law courts, 1500–1700 R. H. Helmholz; 19. The widow's apparel: paraphernalia and the courts Janet S. Loengard; 20. 'The glorious uncertainty of the law': life at the Bar, 1810–1830 Michael Lobban.

'The results speak for themselves: the papers collected here, ranging from the 12th to the 19th century, draw upon extensive new archival work, and will be of interest to a readership well beyond the ranks of the specialist legal historians … The inherent interest of the essays gathered here aside, scholars everywhere will be grateful to those among the contributors who have generously made sets of data available to others as appendices to their essays.' Hannes Kleineke, Parliamentary History