The Life of Sir Edward Coke: Lord Chief Justice of England in the Reign of James I., with Memoirs of His Contemporaries, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1845 - Great Britain |
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Page 463 - and Parliament part less satisfied one with another than is necessary for the preservation both of King and people ; here are before me the things most valued, most feared by mortal man, life or death. " To say, Sir, that there hath not been a strife in me, were to make me less man, than
Page 302 - I stand more for the liberty of my people, than any here that come to be my pretended judges; and therefore let me know by what lawful authority I am seated here, and I will answer it; otherwise I will not answer it
Page 177 - of the land, and they desire restitution. What a word is that franchise ? The lord may tax his villain high or low ; but it is against the franchises of the land, for freemen to be taxed but by their consent in Parliament."*
Page 468 - designs by any ordinary way and method of proceeding, did at last resolve to attempt the destruction and attainder of the said Earl by an Act of Parliament, to be therefore purposely made to condemn him upon an accumulative treason, none of the pretended crimes being treason apart, and so could not
Page 433 - the law reports, which he advocates as possessing sundry great advantages over the dullness of legal prose. He further informs us, that a friend actually made the attempt with Coke's Institutes, a book so rugged in its style, that an attempt to polish it seemed an Herculean
Page 180 - be it ever so little, but is imprisonment; and foreign employment is a kind of honourable banishment. I myself was designed to go to Ireland. I was willing to go, and hoped, if I had gone, to have found some mompessons there.* There is a
Page 42 - It is true also I disliked the riot or violence, whereof we of your council gave your Majesty advertisement, by our joint letter; and I disliked it the more, because he justified it to be law, which was his old song.
Page 46 - Sir Edward Coke, as if he were a man not to be meddled withal in any case. For whatsoever you did against him by our employment and commendation, we ever allowed it, and still do, for good service on your part, de bonis openbus
Page 40 - I dare not presume any more to reply upon your Majesty ; but I reserve my defence till I attend your Majesty at your happy return, when I hope verily to approve myself not only a true servant to your Majesty, but a true friend to my Lord
Page 450 - This he wished to present to the public, and chose that mode of doing it, in which, without being obliged to dwell upon those doctrines of the law which other authors might explain equally well, he might produce that profound and recondite learning which he felt himself to possess above all others.