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Abbreviations; Table of parliamentary statutes; 1. The ecclesiasticalcourts: structures and procedures; 2. The business of the courts, 1500-1640;3. Tithe causes; 4. Wills and testamentary causes; 5. Defamation; 6.Matrimonial litigation and marriage licenses; 7. Office causes; 8. The rootsof expansion and critical voices; 9. Charting decline, 1640-1830; 10.Explaining decline; 11. The Bills of 1733-1734; 12. Snips and repairs: smallsteps to reform, 1753-1813; 13. Royal commissions and early fruits,1815-1832; 14. Reform frustrated; 15. Reforms thick and fast, 1854-1860.