Sir Edward Coke
Standard Name: Coke, Sir Edward
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Mary Astell | Material that she kept relating to the school included legal views of the canonical jurist Sir Edward Coke
on charitable institutions, a sermon by George Hickes
on endowing a school for poor girls, and information... |
| Publishing | Judith Cowper Madan | Verses written extempore in Mr A[shley] C[owper]
's Coke
upon Littleton (the title of a standard legal textbook) by Judith Cowper
(later Madan), appeared, to her dismay, in Ambrose Philips
's The Free-Thinker. |
Timeline
29 September 1617
Frances Coke
, daughter of the jurist Sir Edward Coke
and of his second wife (the former Lady Elizabeth Hatton
), was married at Hampton Court to John Villiers
, elder brother of King James...
1628
Publication began of the legal treatise known to later generations as Coke upon Littleton: The first part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or a Commentarie upon Littleton by jurist Sir Edward Coke
.
7 June 1628
Charles I
backed down and accepted the Petition of Right, a statement of the subject's rights and freedoms drawn up by the elderly jurist Sir Edward Coke
.
Texts
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