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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 21 | 21 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 9 | 9 | Browse | Search |
M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background | 7 | 7 | Browse | Search |
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. | 5 | 5 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coke , Sir Edward 1552 -1634 (search)
Coke, Sir Edward 1552-1634
Jurist; born at Mileham, Norfolk, England, Feb. 1, 1552; educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Clifford's Inn, and the Inner Temple; began the practice of law in 1578, and quickly rose to the highest rank.
Passing through different grades of judicial office, he became lord chief-justice of England, opposed in his whole course by a powerful rival, Francis Bacon.
Coke was a violent and unscrupulous man, and carried his points in court and in politics by sheer audacity, helped by tremendous intellectual force.
As attorney-general, he conducted the prosecution of Sir Walter Raleigh with shameful unfairness; and from the beginning of his reign King James I. feared and hated him, but failed to suppress him. Coke was in the privy council and in Parliament in 1621 when the question of monopolies by royal grants was brought before the House in the case of the council of Plymouth and the New England fisheries.
Coke took ground against the validity of the pat
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ward , Nathaniel 1578 -1652 (search)
Ward, Nathaniel 1578-1652
Author; born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, about 1578; graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1603; practised law and preached; became a member of the Massachusetts Company in 1630, and emigrated to the colony in 1634, where he was pastor at Agawam till 1637; took part in the settlement of Haverhill in 1640; returned to England in 1646, and was author of Body of liberties; The simple Cobbler of Agawam, etc. He died in Shenfield, Essex, England, in October, d, Nathaniel 1578-1652
Author; born in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, about 1578; graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1603; practised law and preached; became a member of the Massachusetts Company in 1630, and emigrated to the colony in 1634, where he was pastor at Agawam till 1637; took part in the settlement of Haverhill in 1640; returned to England in 1646, and was author of Body of liberties; The simple Cobbler of Agawam, etc. He died in Shenfield, Essex, England, in October, 1652.