Sir Edward Coke, of Stoke Pogis, MP, Lord Chief Justice of England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Coke

not-so-brief biography and family

Family and Education

• b. 1 Feb. 1552, 1st son of Robert Coke of Mileham, Norfolk and Winifred, daughter of William Knightley, attorney, of Norwich, Norfolk
• educ. Norwich g.s. 1560; Trin. Coll. Camb. 1567, MA 1597; Clifford’s Inn 21 Jan. 1572; I. Temple 24 Apr. 1572, called 1578.
• married (1) 13 Aug. 1582, ? with £30,000, Bridget (d. 27 June 1598), daughter and heir of John Paston of Cookley, Suffolk, 7 sons, 2 daughtger (1 d.v.p.);
• married (2) 6 Nov. 1598, Elizabeth (d. 3 Jan. 1646), daughter of Thomas Cecil†, 1st earl of Exeter, and widow of Sir William Hatton† (d.1597) of Holdenby, Northamptonshire and Hatton House, Holborn, London, 1 daughter
• Succeeded father 1561;
• Knighted 22 May 1603.[1]
• d. 3 Sept. 1634.
• sig. Edw[ard] Coke.

Offices Held

• Reader, Lyon’s Inn 1579-82;
• recorder,
  • Norwich 1586-92,[2]
  • London Jan.-June 1592,
  • Orford, Suffolk 1593-1621,[3]
  • Harwich, Essex by 1603-d.,[4]
  • Coventry, Warwickshire 1614-d.;[5]
• fee’d counsel,
  • Camb. Univ. 1586,[6]
  • Great Yarmouth, Norfolk by 1603;[7]
  • Drapers’ Co. 1603-6,[8]
  • Anne of Denmark 1603;[9]
• steward, reader’s dinner, Inner Temple 1590,
• bencher 1590-1606,
• auditor 1590,
• reader 1592,
• treasurer 1595-7,
• attendant to reader 1604-6;[10]
• solicitor-general 1592-5,
• attorney-general 1594-1606;
• sjt.-at-law 1606;[11]
• justice of assize,
  • Norfolk circuit 1604, 1606-11,
  • Midlands circuit 1612;[12]
• c.j.c.p. 1606-13;
• c.j.k.b. 1613-16;[13]
• j. in eyre, forests and parks belonging to Anne of Denmark c.1618.[14]
• Freeman, Norwich 1586;[15]
• Justice of the Peace
  • Norfolk 1586-at least 1622,[16]
  • Suffolk by 1601-at least 1622,
  • Middlesex by 1601-at least 1622,
  • Northamptonshire by 1601-at least 1614,
  • Harwich by 1603-at least 1618,[17]
  • Buckinghamshire 1604-at least 1622,[18]
  • Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire 1607,[19]
    • liberties of Southwell and Scroby, Nottinghamshire 1613-17,[20]
  • Cawood, Wistow and Otley, Yorkshire 1614-17,[21]
  • Ripon, Yorkshire 1614-17,[22]
  • Westminster 1618-at least 1620,[23]
  • Cambs. by 1622;[24]
• Commissioner of gaol delivery,
  • Newgate, London by 1601-1616, 1619,[25]
  • Ipswich, Suffolk 1601-d.,[26]
  • Orford, Suffolk 1611,[27]
• Commissioner of swans, Thames 1601-at least 1609,[28]
• Commissioner oyer and terminer,
  • London 1601-1616, 1618,
  • Middlesex 1601-16, 1618-at least 1620,
  • Norfolk circuit 1602-1617,
  • Midlands circuit 1602,
  • the Verge 1604,
• Commissioner enclosure rioters, Northamptonshire 1607,[29]
• Commissioner of sewers,
  • Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 1601,
  • Surrey and Kent 1603,
  • R. Lea 1604-at least 1609,
  • rivers Ouse and Welland 1605-at least 1608,[30]
  • London 1607,[31]
  • R. Gleane 1609-at least 1618,
  • Hertfordshire, Middlesex, and Buckinghamshire 1609,
  • Westminster 1611,
  • Norwich 1611,
  • Hertfordshire 1615-at least 1618,
  • Middlesex 1619,
  • Suffolk 1619,[32]
• Commissioner of piracy,
  • Norfolk 1602,
  • Essex, Kent, etc. 1603-at least 1615,
  • Suffolk 1604-at least 1612,
  • London 1606,
  • Devon 1614-at least 1615,[33]
• Commissioner of inquiry, limits and boundaries, Cambridgeshire 1602,[34]
• Commissioner of charitable uses,
  • Middlesex 1605,
  • Norfolk 1611,[35]
• Commissioner of survey limits and boundaries, Isle of Ely, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Hunts. and Lincolnshire 1605,[36]
• Commissioner of subsidy,
  • Buckinghamshire 1608, 1621-2, 1624,
  • London and Middlesex 1608, 1621-2, 1624;[37]
• Commissioner of exacted fees in ecclesiastical courts 1610,[38]
• Commissioner of annoyances,
  • Surrey 1611,
  • Middlesex 1613;[39]
• Governor of Charterhouse hospital, London 1611-d.;[40]
• Commssioner Admtly. causes, Suffolk 1612;[41]
• steward, Cambridge University 1614;[42]
• Commissioner of new buildings, London 1615, 1618;[43]
• high steward,
  • Gloucester, Gloucestershire 1615-27,[44] ?
  • Chipping Wycombe, Buckinghamshire by 1624;[45]
• sheriff, Buckinghamshire 1625-6;[46]
• Assistant to Comissioners for disafforesting the forest of Neroche, Somerset 1628.[47]
• Speaker, House of Commons 1593.
• Member, High Commission, Canterbury province 1601-at least 1620;[48]
• Commissioner for the office of chancellor of duchy of Lancaster 1601;[49]
• Gentleman of privy chamber 1603;
• Commissioner to find seminary priests 1606,
• Commissioner to arbitrate in dispute between the Battery Works Co. and the 4th earl of Worcester 1607;[50]
• PC 1613-16, 1619-21;[51]
• Commissioner of cloth exports 1614,[52]
• Commissioner to appoint justices of assize, Midlands circuit 1616;[53]
• cllr. to Anne of Denmark by 1617-?19,
• Commissioner for Anne’s revenue 1618;[54]
• Commissioner to investigate fraud in the Exchequer 1618,
• Commissioner to run the Treasury 1618-19,
• Commissioner to investigate Sir Walter Ralegh† 1618,
• Commissioner to banish Jesuits and seminary priests 1618,
• Commissioner to inventory the king’s jewels 1619,
• Commissioner to sell Anne of Denmark’s jewels 1619,
• Commissioner to resolve differences with the Dutch 1619,
• Commissioner to sell gold and silver plate 1620,
• Commissioner to improve Crown rents 1620,
• Commissioner to prevent illegal export of ordnance 1620,[55]
• Commissioner for poor relief 1620,[56]
• Commissioner to survey Ireland 1623-4.[57]

The Lion and the Throne,(1956) by Catherine Drinker Bowen pg. 115 names the children of Sir Edward and Bridget as "Edward, Anne, Robert, Arthur, John, Henry, Clement and Bridget" and on the following page names a son Thomas who was "christened and died." Wife Bridget died six months later.

comments

Surname has also been reported to be Cooke.

Date and place of marriage to Bridget Paston have also been (erroneously?) reported to be August 13, 1582 in Middlesex (now Greater London), England (unattested).

links

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