The university libraries of theological
manuscripts in Latin were supplemented with many non-religious
books.
There were graduate studies in theology, medicine, music, and law,
which was a merging of civil and canon law together with
preparatory work for studying common law at the Inns of Court in
London.
In London, legal training was given at the four Inns of Court.
Students were called to dinner by a horn. Only young gentry were
admitted there. A year's residence there after university gave a
gentleman's son enough law to decide disputes of tenants on family
estates or to act as Justice of the Peace in his home county. A
full legal education gave him the ability to handle all family
legal matters, including property matters. Many later became
justices of the Peace or members of Parliament. Students spent two
years in the clerks' commons, and two in the masters' commons.
Besides reading textbooks in Latin, the students observed at court
and did work for practicing attorneys. After about four more
years' apprenticeship, a student could be called to the outer
barre. There was a real bar of iron or wood separating the
justices from the attorneys and litigants. As "Utter Barrister" or
attorney, he would swear to "do no falsehood in the court,
increase no fees but be contented with the old fees accustomed,
delay no man for lucre or malice, but use myself in the office of
an Attorney within the Court according to my learning and
discretion, so help me God, Amen".
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