The Life Of Sir Edward Coke 1 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Life of Sir Edward Coke, Vol. 1: Lord of Justice of England in the Reign of James I; With Memoirs of His Contemporaries The works of Sir Edward Coke have been long familiar to the legal profession; to no English lawyer, indeed, are his gigantic labours unknown. But with regard to the life of their great author, with the exception of the able notice by Oldys, in the Biographia Britannica, little has yet been accomplished. To the readers of English history, Coke is principally known as the pleader who so rancorously conducted the prosecution of Sir Walter Raleigh; and he is hardly remembered for anything except the part which he played in that melancholy trial. To this, many circumstances have contributed; he was much too independent in his political conduct to be a favourite with the historians of either party; too patriotic for the royalists; his high prerogative legal opinions were, on the other hand, equally distasteful to the republicans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.