James S. Hart JR 
The Rule of Law, 1603-1660 [PDF ebook] 
Crowns, Courts and Judges

This book measures contemporary attitudes to the law – within and outside of the legal profession – to see how c17th century Englishmen defined the role of law in their society, to see what their expectations were of the law and how these expectations helped shape political debate – and ultimately determined political decisions – over the course of a very turbulent century.