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• Acknowledgments and Dedicatory
• A Note On the Texts, Editions, and Translations
• Introduction
• Chronology of Events
• Editions of Coke’s Works
• Mottoes and Crests of Sir Edward Coke
• I: Reports
• Part One of the Reports
• The Preface to the Reader.
• Shelley’s Case.
• Part Two of the Reports
• (preface) to the Learned Reader.
• Manser’s Case.
• The Case of Bankrupts.
• |[46 A] the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Case. *
• Part Three of the Reports
• (preface) to the Reader.
• Heydon’s Case.
• Fermor’s Case.
• Part Four of the Reports
• (preface) to the Reader.
• The Lord Cromwell’s Case. *
• Cutler V. Dixon.
• Vaux’s Case.
• Slade’s Case.
• Part Five of the Reports
• (preface) to the Reader.
• Foster’s Case.
• Cases of By-laws and Ordinances the Chamberlain of London’s Case.
• Clark’s Case.
• The Case of Market-overt.
• Semayne’s Case.
• Rooke’s Case.
• Pinnel’s Case.
• |[125 A] the Case De Libellis Famosis.
• Part Six of the Reports
• (preface) to the Reader.
• Jentleman’s Case.
• Part Seven of the Reports
• (preface) Deo, Patriae, Tibi. 2
• Calvin’s Case, Or the Case of the Postnati. 1
• The Case of Swans.
• Penal Statutes.
• Part Eight of the Reports
• (preface) Deo, Patriae, Tibi. 3
• Vynior’s Case. *
• Dr. Bonham’s Case.
• The Case of Thetford School, &c.
• Part Nine of the Reports
• (preface) Deo, Patriae, Tibi. 3
• William Aldred’s Case.
• John Lamb’s Case.
• Mackalley’s Case. (in the Killing of the Sergeant of London.)
• Part Ten of the Reports
• (preface) Deo, Patriae, Tibi. 5
• The Case of Sutton’s Hospital.
• The Case of the Isle of Ely.
• Part Eleven of the Reports
• (preface) Deo, Patriae, Tibi. 4
• The Lord De La Warre’s Case.
• The Case of the Tailors of Habits &c. of Ipswich.
• The Case of Monopolies.
• James Bagg’s Case.
• Part Twelve of the Reports
• Ford and Sheldon’s Case.
• Case of Non Obstante, Or Dispensing Power.
• Q. If High Commissioners Have Power to Imprison.
• Floyd and Barker.
• Of Oaths Before an Ecclesiasticall Judge Ex Officio.
• Of Pardons.
• Customs, Subsidies, and Impositions.
• Buggery. 1
• Premunire.
• Nicholas Fuller’s Case.
• Sir Anthony Roper’s Case.
• Sir Anthony Roper’s Case.
• The Case of Heresy.
• Langdale’s Case.
• Mouse’s Case.
• Prohibitions Del Roy.
• The Lord Aburgaveney’s Case.
• Of Convocations.
• Proclamations.
• Thomlinson’s Case.
• Walter Chute’s Case.
• Sir Stephen Procter’s [proctor’s] Case.
• Exaction of Benevolence.
• Part Thirteen of the Reports
• (preface) to the Reader.
• Prohibitions.
• The Case De Modo Decimandi, 1 and of Prohibitions, Debated Before the Kings Majesty.

EDWARD COKE

Acknowledgments and Dedicatory

This project could not have been completed without the support of Liberty Fund, its officers and staff. Second only to their efforts were those of John Baker, whose care has saved, in many ways, this project from an inglorious end. I am profoundly grateful for the counsel and guidance in thedevelopment of this project over its many years given by Richard and Morris Arnold, Barbara Black, Marius Bolten, David Bovenizer, Alan Boyer, Dan Coquillette, Garett Fagan, Laura Goetz, Michael Hoeflich, Dan Kirklin, Christian Kopff, Dan Levine, Sam Mortlock, William Nelson, Emilio Pacheco, Mark Anthony Reynolds, and especially James Stoner. Hospitality and assistance in the research were provided by Whitney Bagnall and Kent McKeever at Columbia, David Warrington and his staff at Harvard, Mark Nicholls at Cambridge, Sharon Bradley at Thomas Cooley, and Glen-Peter Ahlers and David Gay at the University of Arkansas. The staff of the Earl of Leicester, particularly Mike Daly and Sam Mortlock, have been terribly gracious and helpful. I am indebted to the good offices of Mr. Mortlock, and of Marjorie and Brian Gill in photographing and confirming the engraving of certain lines in Sir Edward’s epitaph in Tittleshall, which made possible the duplication of its inscriptions in these volumes. Danny Abbott, Jenny Adelman, Ingrid Arinez, K. Dement, Jay Atwood, Sylviane Donnadieu, Jessica Gunter, Richard Highsmith, Johnathan Horton, Charlene Kim, Orse Kore, Jackie Long, Al Sleicher, Louisa Vassileva, Shanna Wells, and Brett Worlow provided valuable and tenacious assistance in manuscript production.

This edition is dedicated to my teachers, the first and most influential of whom were my parents, William and Martha, all of whose care and dedication made this edition possible.

S.M.S.

The University of Arkansas 2003