“…27 More widely, of course, it was not the only venue for the use of civil law in England, with institutions such as Star Chamber and the Court of Chancery working by civilian principles. 28 What has been called the 'enemy theory'that is, the assumption that common lawyers showed little interest in civil law beyond considering it a threatis out of fashion, partly because there is evidence for increasing knowledge of it during the sixteenth century. 29 This does not mean, though, that the works of Fortescue were forgotten; they were indeed invoked in the early seventeenth century by Sir Edward Coke, when he discussed the use of torture in the mid-fifteenth century.…”