The Five Knights' case 3 How St Tr 1, is an English habeas corpus case of major significance in the history of English and later United Kingdom constitutional law.
Sir Randolph Crewe, the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who was dismissed by Charles I for refusing to declare the "forced loans" legal
John Selden was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learne
John Selden (portrait by an unknown artist)
Tracts, published posthumously in 1683, contained English translations
A portrait of John Selden held by the National Portrait Gallery, London
Volumes published by the Selden Society