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A Short Biography of Edward Coke

Author Name:

Edward Coke

Born As:

Edward Coke

Other Names:

Sir Edward Coke

Born:

1 Feb 1552

Died:

3 Sep 1633




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Jurist                          
Selected Works:

Reports and Institutes 
The First Institute of the Lawes of England, or a Commentary on Littleton.                          
                          
Copies of Coke's writings arrived in North America on the Mayflower in 1620, and every lawyer in the English colonies and early United States was trained from Coke's books.

Under Coke's leadership, in 1628 the House of Commons forced Charles I of England to accept Coke's ‘Petition of Right’ by withholding the revenues the king wanted until he capitulated. 

The Petition of Right was the forerunner of the English Bill of Rights and the U.S. Bill of Rights.