Edward Coke
1552–1634
Jurist. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1592–3; attorney-general, 1593–4; chief justice of the Common Pleas, 1606; chief justice of the King’s Bench, 1613. His Institutes (1628), consisting of a translation and reprint of Thomas Littleton’s Tenures (c. 1481) with a commentary, the text of various statutes with commentaries, and a treatise on the jurisdiction of different courts, had a profound influence on early modern English law.
Source
DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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