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... Trial of Mary Queen of Scots - Coke made Recorder of Nor- wich , Coventry and London - A bencher and reader of Inner Temple - Elected into parliament for Nor- wich - Made solicitor - general- Sketch of his parliamen- tary demeanour ...
... Trial of Mary Queen of Scots - Coke made Recorder of Nor- wich , Coventry and London - A bencher and reader of Inner Temple - Elected into parliament for Nor- wich - Made solicitor - general- Sketch of his parliamen- tary demeanour ...
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... Trial of Essex and Southampton -Speech of Coke - Notice of Essex and of his son- on - Criminal trials of that age -- The public quarrel of Coke and Ba- con- -Queen Elizabeth - Her conduct to Coke - Her gift to him - Her death - Coke ...
... Trial of Essex and Southampton -Speech of Coke - Notice of Essex and of his son- on - Criminal trials of that age -- The public quarrel of Coke and Ba- con- -Queen Elizabeth - Her conduct to Coke - Her gift to him - Her death - Coke ...
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... Trial of Mary Queen of Scots - Coke made Recorder of Nor- wich , Coventry and London - A bencher and reader of Inner Temple - Elected into parliament for Nor- wich - Made solicitor - general - Sketch of his parliamen- tary demeanour ...
... Trial of Mary Queen of Scots - Coke made Recorder of Nor- wich , Coventry and London - A bencher and reader of Inner Temple - Elected into parliament for Nor- wich - Made solicitor - general - Sketch of his parliamen- tary demeanour ...
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... Trial of Essex and Southampton - Speech of Coke - Notice of Essex and of his son - Criminal trials of that age - The public quarrel of Coke and Ba- con- Queen Elizabeth - Her conduct to Coke - Her gift to him - Her death - Coke ...
... Trial of Essex and Southampton - Speech of Coke - Notice of Essex and of his son - Criminal trials of that age - The public quarrel of Coke and Ba- con- Queen Elizabeth - Her conduct to Coke - Her gift to him - Her death - Coke ...
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... trial of the murderers of Overbury - Weston -Ann Turner -Sir John Elvis - Sir Robert Monson - - The Earl and Countess of Somerset - Roger Coke's account of the detection of the plot - King James ' fears - The plots which attended him ...
... trial of the murderers of Overbury - Weston -Ann Turner -Sir John Elvis - Sir Robert Monson - - The Earl and Countess of Somerset - Roger Coke's account of the detection of the plot - King James ' fears - The plots which attended him ...
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The Life of Sir Edward Coke, with Memoirs of His Contemporaries Cuthbert William Johnson No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 177 - My lord, out of the love I bear to some of your friends, I have a care of your preservation. Therefore I would advise you, as you tender your life, to devise some excuse to shift off your attendance at this parliament. For God and man hath concurred to punish the wickedness of this time.
Page 210 - You are great, and therefore have the more enviers, which would be glad to have you paid at another's cost. Since the time I missed the Solicitor's place, the rather I think by your means, I cannot expect that you and I shall ever serve as Attorney and Solicitor together; but either to serve with another upon your remove, or to step into some other course; so as I am more free than ever I was from any occasion of unworthy conforming myself to you, more than general good manners or your particular...
Page 127 - And that she did acknowledge you had a great wit, and an excellent gift of speech, and much other good learning. But in law she rather thought you could make show to the uttermost of your knowledge, than that you were deep.
Page 171 - You shall swear by the blessed Trinity, and by the sacrament you now propose to receive, never to disclose directly or indirectly, by word or circumstance, the matter that shall be proposed to you to keep secret, nor desist from the execution thereof until the rest shall give you leave.
Page 142 - ... and other such strange light terms he gave me, with that insulting which cannot be expressed. " Herewith stirred, yet I said no more but this : ' Mr Attorney, do not depress me so far ; for I have been your better, and may be again, when it please the Queen.
Page 95 - ... my estate is nothing correspondent for the maintenance of this dignity; for my father, dying, left me a younger brother, and nothing to me but my bare annuity. Then, growing to man's estate, and some small practice of the law, I took a wife, by whom I have had many children, the keeping of us all being a great impoverishment to my estate, and the daily living of us all nothing but my daily industry.
Page 210 - ... stand at a stay. And surely I may not endure in public place to be wronged without repelling the same to my best advantage to right myself. You are great, and therefore have the more enviers, which would be glad to have you paid at another's cost. Since the time I missed the Solicitor's place, the rather I think by your means, I cannot expect that you and I shall ever serve as Attorney and Solicitor together; but...
Page 150 - I do not hear yet, that you have spoken one word against me ; here is no treason of mine done. If my lord Cobham be a traitor, what is that to me ? Attorney.
Page 147 - I shall not need, my lords, to speak any thing concerning the king, nor of the bounty and sweetness of his nature, whose thoughts are innocent, whose words are full of wisdom and learning, and whose works are full of honour ; although it be a true saying, Nunquam nimis, quod nunquam satis.
Page 24 - ... as he was taking the air in a coach with Dr. Witherborne (a Scotchman, physician to the King) towards Highgate, snow lay on the 1 Commented upon. ground, and it came into my Lord's thoughts why flesh might not be preserved in snow, as in salt.