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Part I. Law and Politics: 1. The Making of a Legal Mind; 2. Kingship andthe Problem of Sovereignty; 3. Lords and Commons; 4. Reforming PrivyCouncillors: Crown Finances and the Administration of Government; 5. TheProblem of Law Reform; 6. The Clash of Jurisdictions: Central and LocalAuthorities, Secular and Ecclesiastical; 7. Les Enfants Terribles: Coke,Ellesmere, and the Supremacy of the Chancellor's Decree; 8. The Provenance ofEllesmere's Tracts; Part II. Ellesmere's Tracts: 9. 'A Coppie of a wryttendiscourse by the Lord Chauncellor Elsemore concerning the Royall Prerogative'(c. 1604); 10. 'The Speech of the Lord Chancellor of England, in theEschequer Chamber, touching the Post-Nati' (1608); 11. 'Special obseruacionstouching all the sessions of the last parlement anno 7 Regis and etc.'(1611); 12. 'Thinges to be Considered of before a parlement to be Called'(1615); 13. 'Memorialles for Iudicature. Pro Bono Publico' (c. 1609); 14.'Some Notes, and Remembrances, concerning Prohibitians, for Staying of suitesin the Ecclesiastical Courts, and in the Courts of the Admiraltie' (1611);15. 'The Lord Chancellor Egertons Observations upon ye Lord Cookes Reportes'(1615); 16. A breviate or direccion for the Kinges learned Councell collectedby the Lord Chauncellor Ellesmere, mense septembris 1615 Anno Yacobi Regis'.