Edward Coke
See also: Coke
Sir Edward Coke (to be pronounced " cook ") (1552 - September 3rd 1634), English jurisconsult.
He was successively solicitant of the crown (1592), public prosecutor, president of the court of the common plaids, 1st judge of the bench of the king (1613), and returned in these functions of great services to Elisabeth Ire of England and to Jacques Ier of England.
It was charged to continue the count of Essex, Walter Raleigh, the authors of the Conspiration of the powders, and Robert Carr de Somerset, old favorite of the king. He was at the same time one of the most influential members of the Parliament and pointed out himself by his independence.
Having irritated Jacques I and his favorite George Villiers de Buckingham by its courageous opposition, it was stripped of all its dignities at the end of its career. He died in the retirement, in 1634, at 85 years.
There is of him Institutes of the right of England , 1628, traditional work, often reprinted, 1660. It had for rival and an adversary the famous Francis Bacon.
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