Sir Edward Coke, prosecutor of Guy Fawkes
Great Lives
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The Importance of Dr. Bonham's Case
The petition of Wright itself is actually deeply personally critical of the king. It talks about your commands, your prairie council. So it's an extraordinary statement of Wright, but it's also an extraordinary attack on the king. And another key figure here actually is John Selden, the great lawyer. The language that the petition is written in is someone says that Cook, in his writing, is the legal equivalent of Shakespeare,. But he is... His authority and his genius and his breadth, yes.
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