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Sir Edward Coke, prosecutor of Guy Fawkes

Great Lives

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James Norman's Ignoramis

Jesse Norman was Attorney General at Keypart of the Government. Then he's on the outside and becomes Chief Justice of Common Pleas. That automatically places him in a position where he is potentially at odds, if not with the King, then with people around him. He uses legal means to force all these other courts to yield up their judgments. And that makes him lots of enemies, presumably.

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