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Mottoes and Crests of Sir Edward Coke - Sir Edward Coke, Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke, vol. I [1600]Edition used:The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke, ed. Steve Sheppard (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003). Vol. 1.
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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.
Mottoes and Crests of Sir Edward Coke
The inscription on rings, which Edward Coke distributed according to custom to commemorate his being called to become Serjeant at Law: Lex est tutissima cassis (Law is the safest helmet) This is a shorthand for a maxim: “Law is the safest helmet; under the shield of law no one is deceived.”
His Crest:
His Motto: Prudens qui patiens (The prudent man is patient) This is an abbreviated form of the fuller motto: Prudens qui patiens etenim durissima coquit (The prudent man is a patient man, which aids him in the digestion) The motto is a pun built on the similarity of Coke’s name to the Latin for “digestion,” which also accounts for his choice of the ostrich as an heraldic animal. The ostrich was, at that time, believed to have a digestion so strong that it could eat iron, which explains the horseshoe in its beak.
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