... law absorbing much of what used to be the ecclesiastical courts' jurisdiction and the inheritance of the customs and traditions of the Roman church.3 Additionally, as Raffield highlights many eminent prelates remained as members to the Inns of Court.4 One particular reason that Judaeo-Christian theology was able to play a major role on the stage of early English Common Law was the unwritten nature of the English Constitution. It was the contention of William Dugdale thtat '...the Common Law is, out of question, no less antient than the beginning of differences betwixt man, after the first peopling of this land, it being no other than pure and tried Reason...or the absolute perfection of Reason, as Sir Edward Coke affirmeth, adding that the ground therof is beyond the memory or Register of any beginning'5. This emphasis on antiquity could have been to persuade others of the primacy of the common law. ...

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