Abstract
Abstract A scholar at the Middle Temple and a steadfast Catholic, Edmund Plowden (1518–85) revolutionized the practice of law by providing thorough, detailed accounts of various legal arguments in his Commentaries (1571). Plowden enjoyed relative immunity from persecution as a Catholic because of his membership in the close-knit Inns of Court and his outstanding abilities. Plowden wrote his Treatise on Mary, Queen of Scots (1566) in response to John Hales’s manuscript tract (early 1560s) denying the claims of Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, to the English throne. Plowden dismisses the common-law argument that prohibits inheritance by aliens.
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