File:Portrait of Edward Coke (1669) by R White.jpg

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R. White.
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Latina: Vera Effigies Viri Clariſs EDOARDI COKE Equitis aurati nuper Capitalis Iuſticiarij ad Placita coram Rege tenenda aſsignati.
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English: True portrait from life of the illustrious EDWARD COKE, knight, recently appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench (literally "Chief Justice for pleas to be held before the King").
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English: An engraved portrait of Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634), an English barrister, judge and, later, opposition politician, who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
Date 1669
date QS:P571,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving on paper.
Inscriptions below portrait: "Vera Effigies Viri Clariſs EDOARDI COKE / Equitis aurati nuper Capitalis Iuſticiarij / ad Placita coram Rege tenenda aſsignati / R: White sculpuit [engraved by R. White]".
Source/Photographer Frontispiece of Edward Coke (1669) The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes. The Fourth Edition. Authore Edw. Coke, Milite (4th ed.), London: Printed for A[ndrew] Crooke, W[illiam] Leake, A[bel] Roper, F[rancis] Tyton, T[homas] Dring, T[homas] Collins, J[ohn] Place, W[illiam] Place, J[ohn] Starkey, T[homas] Bassett, R[obert] Pawlett, S[amuel] Heyrick, and G[eorge] Dawes, booksellers in Fleetstreet and Holborn OCLC: 9515015.
Other versions File:The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes (4th ed, 1669).pdf

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