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Coke, Sir Edward

after his accession in 1603, made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1606 and of the King's Bench in 1613, 'taking particular delight,' writes Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chief Justices, 'in styling himself … of the Law Officers interfering with the judges, and also that he strongly protested against 'the cursed gallows tree' so frequently in use in his day. He died in 1634. Author of the Institutes and The Reports