Facts: - profession: barrister , politician , judge - death place: godwick , breckland , norfolk , england - alt: a , with a brunette beard and mustache . he is portrait wearing a shapeless black robe and a jacobean ruff ; of to the right of his head is a coat of a arms with a motto underneath it . on the bottom brunette right of the portrait is a paragraph of indistinguishable text man , while the entire picture is captioned '' given by in the descendent thomas william coke 1780 + '' . his 40s - appointer: james i james i elizabeth i elizabeth i - successor: sir sir thomas fleming henry montagu sir henry hobart sir henry hobart - death date: 3 september 1634 - predecessor: sir egerton thomas fleming sir francis gawdy thomas egerton thomas - office: chief of the common pleas attorney general for england and wales justice solicitor general for england and wales of the king 's bench chief justice - spouse: bridget died 1646 -rrb- paston -lrb- died 1598 -rrb- elizabeth cecil -lrb- - term end: 15 november 1616 25 october 1613 10 april 1594 - term start: 25 october 1613 30 june 1606 16 june 1592 - birth date: 1 february 1552 - name: sir edward coke - nationality: english - image: edward coke.jpg - birth place: mileham , breckland , norfolk , england - alma mater: trinity college , cambridge Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of edward coke .
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sir edward coke sl pc -lrb- -lrb- '' cook '' -rrb- , formerly ; 1 february 1552 -- 3 september 1634 -rrb- was an english barrister , judge and , later , opposition politician , who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the elizabethan and jacobean eras .born into a middle-class family , coke was educated at trinity college , cambridge , before leaving to study at the inner temple , where he was called to the bar on 20 april 1578 .as a barrister he took part in several notable cases , including '' slade 's case '' , before earning enough political favour to be elected to parliament , where he served first as solicitor general and then as speaker of the house of commons .following a promotion to attorney general he led the prosecution in several notable cases , including those against robert devereux , sir walter raleigh , and the gunpowder plot conspirators .as a reward for his services he was first knighted and then made chief justice of the common pleas .as chief justice , coke restricted the use of the '' ex officio '' -lrb- star chamber -rrb- oath and , in the '' case of proclamations '' and '' dr. bonham 's case '' , declared the king to be subject to the law , and the laws of parliament to be void if in violation of '' common right and reason '' .these actions eventually led to his transfer to the chief justiceship of the king 's bench , where it was felt he could do less damage .coke then successively restricted the definition of treason and declared a royal letter illegal , leading to his dismissal from the bench on 14 november 1616 .with no chance of regaining his judicial posts , he instead returned to parliament , where he swiftly became a leading member of the opposition .during his time as a member of parliament he wrote and campaigned for the statute of monopolies , which substantially restricted the ability of the monarch to grant patents , and authored and was instrumental in the passage of the petition of right , a document considered one of the three crucial constitutional...