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Francis Cowper, A Prospect of Gray’s Inn, rev. ed. (London: GRAYA, 1985), 11.
John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Richard Barber (Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 1982), 29.
John H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History, 4th ed. (London: Butterworths LexisNexis, 2002).
John Alexander Guy, The Cardinal’s Court: The Impact of Thomas Wolsey in Star Chamber (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Press, 1977), is a good book on how this court grew in its own right to deal with higher matters of state.
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Many thanks to Daniel Gosling for his help in answering questions about British history in Bacon’s time and to Jonathan Smith for information about Cambridge.
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Robert P. Crease is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy of Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, and co-editor-in-chief of Physics in Perspective.
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Crease, R.P. Francis Bacon’s London. Phys. Perspect. 19, 291–306 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-017-0207-6
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