biography
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Coke, Sir Edward
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commonly called Lord Coke of Cooke
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pronunciation:
[kook]
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| lived:
| (1552–1634)
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in Mileham, Norfolk, E England, UK. He was educated at Norwich and Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the bar in 1578, and rose to become Speaker of the House of Commons (1593), attorney general (1594), Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1606), Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1613), and privy councillor. He brutally prosecuted for treason Essex, Raleigh, and the Gunpowder conspirators, but after 1606 stands out as a vindicator of national liberties against the royal prerogative. He was dismissed in 1617, and from 1620 led the popular party in parliament, serving nine months in prison in the Tower of London. The Petition of Right (1628) was largely his doing. Most of his epoch-making Law Reports were published during his lifetime (1600–15). |
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