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• General Editor's preface; Preface; 1. Attorneys and solicitors before 1700; 2. Regulation of the profession; 3. The Society of Gentlemen Practisers; 4. The provincial law societies; 5. The making of an attorney; 6. The attorney in local society; 7. Estates and elections; 8. Administration and finance; 9. Two attorneys; 10. The road to respectability; Appendix 1. The apprenticeship of Richard Carre and Samuel Berridge; Appendix 2. The admission of an attorney; Appendix 3. Christopher Wallis: notes from the journal; Appendix 4. A note on numbers; Appendix 5. The professions in the eighteenth century: a bibliographical note; List of primary sources; Index.

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