The Origins of the Expert Witness 1758-1832

• The English Reports: Available at http://www.commonlii.org/uk/cases/EngR/ 
• “Preface” in Sylvester Douglas, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench In the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Years of the Reign of George III, Vol. I (1783), pp. i-viii: Available through Google Books
• “Report of J. Smeaton upon the state and condition of Wells Harbour, in the county of Norfolk” in John Smeaton, Reports of the Late John Smeaton (1812), pp.18-37: Available through Internet Archive 
• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations: https://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/ 
• Barbara J. Shapiro, “Law and Science in Seventeenth-Century England.” Stanford Law Review, vol. 21, no. 4, 1969, pp. 727–66.
• Accessible through JSTOR:  https://www.jstor.org/stable/1227566 

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