Index of Gardiner's History of England

Coke, Sir Edward (Attorney-General 1594, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 1606, Chief Justice of the King's Bench 1613-1616, d. 1633)

• his conduct at Raleigh's trial,
• opposes the Bill for free trade,
• appears against the Gunpowder Plotters,
• finds a treatise on Equivocation in Tresham's chambers,
• his speech at Garnet's trial,
• prosecutes Northumberland,
• becomes Justice of the Common Pleas,
• is in favour of the naturalisation of the Post-nati,
• his conduct on the Bench,
• leads the attack on Bancroft's Articuli Cleri,
• has an altercation with the King,
• his opinion on Fuller's case,
• provokes James,
• is said to have instigated the attack on Cowell's Interpreter,
• declares that the King cannot create an offence by proclamation,
• disputes with Abbot on the question of prohibitions,
• objects to the procedure in the case of Legate and Wightman,
• Bacon advises the appointment as Chief Justice of the King's Bench of,
• becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench and a Privy Councillor,
• persuades the judges not to give an opinion to the Lords on the question of impositions,
• objects to the demand for a Benevolence being issued under the Great Seal,
• argues in favour of the legality of the Benevolence,
• resists the separate consultation of the judges,
• gives his opinion in Peacham's case,
• argues against the deputation from the Irish Catholics,
• his opinion on Owen's case,
• is directed to inquire into the murder of Overbury,
• asks that persons of higher rank may be associated with him,
• presides at Weston's trial,
• states his belief that Prince Henry had been poisoned,
• is eager to discover the negotiation between Somerset and Sarmiento,
• his opinion on the preparation for a Parliament,
• view taken of the constitutional position of the judges by,
• brings the Bench into collision with the Crown,
• is forbidden by James to give judgment on the writ de rege inconsulto till he has spoken to him,
• complains of the interference of Chancery,
• instigates the preferment of indictments of praemunire,
• is angry with the grand jury which returns an ignoramus,
• is ordered not to proceed with the case of commendams till he has spoken with the King,
• writes a letter in the names of the judges refusing to obey the command,
• protests against the command,
• asserts his independence,
• is suspended,
• is called on to revise his reports, and dismissed,
• his behaviour after his disgrace,
• quarrels with his wife,
• consents to the marriage of his daughter to Sir John Villiers,
• informs the King of his consent,
• carries off his daughter from Oatlands,
• is summoned before the Council,
• is favourably received by the King,
• is restored to the Council table,
• is disappointed at not receiving higher promotion,
• is appointed a commissioner to examine Raleigh,
• becomes a Commissioner of the Treasury,
• wishes to impose a larger fine on Suffolk,
• acknowledges the legality of the patent for inns,
• political principles of,
• effect on the Commons of his attack upon the monopolies,
• asks the Commons to punish Michell,
• brings in a report against Mompesson,
• acknowledges that the House has no jurisdiction,
• brings in a Bill against monopolies,
• objects to the King's proposed tribunal for the trial of Bacon,
• complains of Bacon as a corrupt judge,
• declares that the House of Commons is a court of record,
• supports the jurisdiction of the Commons over Floyd,
• repeats the prayer for the Royal family,
• is irritated by the affair of Lepton and Goldsmith,
• makes a violent attack on Spain,
• proposes that the Commons shall set down their privileges in writing,
• is sent to the Tower,
• is liberated,
• proposal to send him to Ireland,
• declares that Buckingham has deserved well of his country,
• declares that England was never so prosperous as when she was at war with Spain,
• explains to the Commons the value of the subsidies proposed,
• carries up the impeachment of Middlesex,
• is content that there shall be no committee of grievances in the first Parliament of Charles,
• argues that Montague's writings can be properly considered by the Commons,
• asks for an account of the subsidies of the last Parliament.
• wishes that nothing may be printed without the approval of Convocation,
• declares that the Commons ought not to discuss doctrine,
• comments on the embarrassments of the Treasury,
• suggests a Benevolence,
• is made sheriff to prevent his appearance in Parliament,
• is of opinion that the rights of the subject must be vindicated,
• brings in a Bill against prolonged detention in prison,
• wishes subsidies to be granted with a declaration of the illegality of the forced loan,
• states that when the King is spoken of as imprisoning anyone, it is meant that his command is signified by the judges,
• quotes the language of Festus to Agrippa,
• is temporarily disconcerted by Shllton's quotation from Anderson's reports,
• declares the quotation from Anderson to be apocryphal,
• adduces the evidence of a copy in Anderson's own hand,
• proposes a petition against military outrages,
• asks that the dates for the payment of the subsidies may be fixed,
• criticises the Lords' propositions on imprisonment,
• supports the Bill of Liberties
• wishes the King to ratify the Bill to be presented to him in the form of a promise,
• replies to Sir J. Coke's proposal that the King shall be petitioned,
• proposes a Petition of Right,
• asserts that the phrase 'sovereign power' is not known to the law,
• cannot speak for weeping,
• names Buckingham as the cause of all their miseries,
• death of,
• seizure of the papers of,