@article{93106,
      recid = {93106},
      author = {Matthews, Nancy L.,},
      title = {William Sheppard, Cromwell's law reformer /},
      note = {Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05  Oct 2015).},
      abstract = {This study presents a full account of Sheppard's  employment under Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate as well as  an examination of his family background and education, his  religious commitment to John Owen's party of Independents  and his legal philosophy. An appraisal of all Sheppard's  legal works, including those written during the Civil War  and the Restoration period, illustrates the overlapping  concerns with law reform, religion and politics in his  generation. Sheppard had impressively consistent goals for  the reform of English law and his prescient proposals  anticipate the reforms ultimately adopted in the nineteenth  century, culminating in the Judicature Acts of 1875́ђأ8. Dr  Matthews examines the relative importance of Sheppard's  books to his generation and to legal literature in general.  The study provides a full bibliography of Sheppard's legal  and religious works and an appendix of the sources Sheppard  used in the composition of his books on the law.},
      url = {http://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/93106},
      isbn = {9780511522697},
      content-type = {Biographies.},
}