1. Hans S. Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland: A Study in Legal Imperialism (Cambridge, 1985), chpt. 9, esp. pp. 174–5, 166 (this chapter is reprinted as Pawlisch,’ sir John Davies, the Ancient Constitution, and Civil Law’, Historical Journal vol. 23 (1980), pp. 689–702); W. D. Hassell (ed.), A Catalogue of the Library of Sir Edward Coke (New Haven, 1950) — this shows Coke to have owned numerous civil-law works, and a considerable number of political and historical writings, including works by Machiavelli, Justus Lipsius, Bodin, Guicciardini, Pasquier, de la Popelinière, as well as many English writers.
2. Louis A. Knafla, Law and Politics in Jacobean England: The Tracts of Lord Chancellor Ellesmere (Cambridge, 1977), chpt. I; David Sandler Berkowitz, John Selden’s Formative Years: Politics and Society in Early Seventeenth-Century England (Washington, 1988), chpt. 3& p. 69; Richard Tuck, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development (Cambridge, 1979), p. 83; Martha A. Ziskind, ‘John Selden: Criticism and Affirmation of the Common Law Tradition’, American Journal of Legal History vol. XIX (1975), pp. 22–39.
3. Richard J. Terrill, ‘Humanism and Rhetoric in Legal Education: The Contribution of Sir John Dodderidge (1555–1628)’, Journal of Legal History vol. 2 (1981), pp. 30–44
4. Wilfrid R. Prest, The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590–1640 (London, 1972), pp. 143–9; and Prest, ‘The Dialectical Origins of Finch’s Law’, Cambridge Law Journal vol. 36 (1977), pp. 326–352.
5. Christopher Brooks & Kevin Sharpe, ‘Debate: History, English Law and the Renaissance’, Past and Present No. 72 (1976), pp. 133–42