Lawyer Attorneys and Transformation at the Time of the Black Death
1. Historiography
2. The Database
3. Lawyers who functioned as attorneys just prior to the Black Death numbered at least 779.
analysis
4. Lawyers who did not appear again after the Black Death may have died from other diseases,
retired, been promoted to other positions, or inherited and left the field.
analysis
5. Of the 779 lawyers who functioned as attorneys prior to the Black Death, 515 did not appear
as attorneys after the Black Death.
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6. Of those same 779 lawyers, 264 continued to function as attorneys after the Black Death.
analysis
7. The number of lawyers who were apparently new to functioning as attorneys was 177,
although their names were collected over a longer time period.
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8. Conclusion: discontinuity in the ranks of the attorneys at common pleas was unlikely to have
been a factor in the transformation of English governance and law after the Black Death.
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