English Law and the Renaissance

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English Law and the
Renaissance

(The Rede Lecture for 1901)

with some Notes

by
Frederic William Maitland, LL.D., Hon. D.C.L.,
of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister-at-Law,

Downing Professor of the Laws of England
in the University of Cambridge

Cambridge
at the University Press
1901

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AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

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TO
JAMES BRADLEY THAYER, LL.D.
PROFESSOR OF LAW
AT
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.