Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-09-26

self legal tyrant." He cared moth.
ing for the opinions of those Judges
with whom he sat he knew he was
their superior, and when removed from
the great Council Board afterwards
and Bacon took his place, he was more
humiliated by being compelled to ap
pear before these same Judges, than
by the studied insults of the members
OF the Board II embittered his soul,
and when he appeared he manfully
stood up against the King and the
Kings favorites, and not one of these
men opened his lips to reply to him.
Sometimes the power was great
enough to bend even his proud spirit,
as in the Peachman trial. when. after a
stubborn resistance. he finally gave his
consent and the old man was raclsed to
extort confessions which were not given,
and eventually they released him from
prison after wasting away bis life
there. He was an innocent man. and
Coke knew IT,
In 1916. KING James dismissed Coke
from the Couneil Board as he saws
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King The Kino replied bv calling
him sMr Rocon Y with Tho stgcestion
10 attend 10 his own affairs. Buck.
ingham was insulted his wife ragged !;
his daughter fed the house. However,
all this and the violence to which the
towering spirits of the conflicting par
ties proceeded, did not avail against
Coke. He, armed with the law, and
what was equally potent at that
time. tho Kings favor, forced open
the door, took possession of his daugh.
ter's person, and confined her in safe
place. The mother also was imprison.
cd. and Coke, who in the proceeding
year. TO the worlds surprise, was 81.
lent in the presence OF his wife, now,
to employ his own words, "got upon
bis wings again" and the naughty and
insolent lady became submissive and
quiet. Law Numbered from his lips
to Justify the deed, and law won. Yet
we cannot blame Coke for this act, as
but little while before she bad aban-
doned him. She had seized all the
goods OF the Chief Justices house and
removed them, and all this when the
statesman had fallen from his high es-
tate. At dolborn and at Stoke he was
left with empty houses and no com
forter At all times she was arrogant
and offensive. His acting under these
circumstances loses much of what
would otherwise appear TO be wanton
cruelty, and it was but tho natural re-
vengo for the tortured acknowledge
mcnt that his "crushod heart hath been
forced to yield to more than ho ever
meant" Finally he released her from
confinement; the daughter was mar
ried, and Coke was again at the head
Of the Council Board. Lady Coke
gave reception, but Coke was not
present The daughter lived in misery
with the man she despised, and looked
upon him as the hateful object OF q
forced union, and gave vent TO her be-
fore. contracted passions became loose
IN conduct, and finally was divorced.
This much for his domestic life.
rhe style of Coke's addresses at the
bar was of kind that has not died
out with our more modern lawyers.
lie was given to railing, and invective
of the bittcrest nature. do not know
that can more forcibly set forth his
vituperative style, than by the follow
ing dialogue. Raleigh had been ar