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===by Sir Edward Coke===
 
===by Sir Edward Coke===
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}}[[File:CokeThirdInstitute1644Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|250px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]]''The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England'' is the third volume in a series of books and reports written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Edward_Coke Sir Edward Coke] (1552-1634) in an attempt to provide an exhaustively comprehensive review of English law. Coke, born on February 1, 1552 at Mileham, Norfolk, was arguably the most prominent lawyer, legal writer, and politician during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Coke was a strong supporter and defender of the common law over the use of the Stuart’s royal prerogative.<ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica Online'', s. v. “Sir Edward Coke,” accessed October 3, 2013, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/124844/Sir-Edward-Coke.</ref> Coke began his studies in 1567 at Trinity College, Cambridge during the years of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestiarian_controversy Vestiarian controversy]&mdash;puritan protests against the Church of England. In 1572 he moved on to study at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Temple Inner Temple], where he was admitted to the bar on April 20, 1578. Coke quickly rose to prominence through his successful execution of several noteworthy cases, such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_in_Shelley%27s_Case ''Shelley’s'' case]. Coke's analytical efforts helped to refine the legal doctrines of English law. His reputation won him a seat in Parliament. He would later become the Speaker of the House of Commons and eventually Attorney General.<ref>Allen D. Boyer, [http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/5826 "Coke, Sir Edward (1552–1634)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2009, accessed 18 Sept 2013.</ref> In 1606, after being created serjeant-at-law, Coke was appointed chief justice of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_Common_Pleas_%28England%29 Court of Common Pleas]. He was transferred, against his will, to chief justice of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_of_King%27s_Bench_%28England%29 Court of King's Bench]in 1613; he also became a member of the privy council.<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."</ref> After several political and judicial skirmishes with James I and Francis Bacon, Coke was suspended from the privy council and removed from the bench in 1616.<ref>Ibid.</ref> While he never returned to the bench, Coke did return to Parliament and was elected to that body four times from 1620 to 1629. During this time, he took a pivotal lead in creating and composing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition_of_Right Petition of Right]. "This document cited the Magna Carta and reminded Charles I that the law gave Englishmen their rights, not the king ... Coke’s petition focused on ... due process, protection from unjust seizure of property or imprisonment, the right to trial by jury of fellow Englishmen, and protection from unjust punishments or excessive fines."<ref>''Bill of Rights Institute'' website, s.v. "Petition of Right (1628)", accessed Oct. 3, 2013 http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/educator-resources/americapedia/americapedia-documents/petition-of-right/.</ref> After this triumph, Coke spent his remaining years at his home, Stoke Poges, working on ''The Institutes of the Laws of England'', another endeavor for which he is rightly famous.<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."</ref><br />
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}}[[File:CokeThirdInstitute1644Frontispiece.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Frontispiece.</center>]]''The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England'' is the third volume in a series of books and reports written by Sir [[wikipedia:Edward Coke|Edward Coke]] (1552 &ndash; 1634) in an attempt to provide an exhaustive review of English law. Born on February 1, 1552 at Mileham, Norfolk, Coke was arguably the most prominent lawyer, legal writer, and politician during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a defender of the common law over the use of the Stuarts' royal prerogative.<ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica Online'', s.v. "[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/124844/Sir-Edward-Coke Sir Edward Coke]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref>
The ''Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England'' focuses on the criminal law of England. Coke transferred his experience as attorney general and judge into the third part of the Institutes by focusing on treason, misprision of treason, and heresy much more than homicide, rape, robbery, and similar crimes. Coke had personally tried several famous treason and libel cases as the Attorney General, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot Gunpowder Plot of 1605] and thus his focus in is largely based on his experiences.<ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica Online'', s.v. “Sir Edward Coke.</ref> In general, Coke’s ''Institutes'' are widely considered to have been enormously influential in the United States, especially with regard to the construction of the Third and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution. The''Institutes'' have been cited in over 70 cases decided by the Supreme Court of the Unites States.<ref>LexisNexis search performed May 1, 2008.</ref>
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Coke began his studies in 1567 at [[wikipedia:Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College, Cambridge]] during the years of the [[wikipedia:Vestiarian controversy|Vestiarian controversy]]&mdash;puritan protests against the Church of England. In 1572 he moved on to study at the [[wikipedia:Inner Temple|Inner Temple]], where he was admitted to the bar on April 20, 1578. Coke quickly rose to prominence through his successful execution of several noteworthy cases, such as [[wikipedia:Rule in Shelley's Case|''Shelley's'' case]]. Coke's analytical efforts helped to refine the legal doctrines of English law, and his reputation won him a seat in Parliament. He would later become the Speaker of the House of Commons and eventually attorney general.<ref>Allen D. Boyer, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.wm.edu/view/article/5826 Coke, Sir Edward (1552–1634)] in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', accessed September 18, 2013.</ref> In 1606, after being created [[wikipedia:Serjeant-at-law|serjeant-at-law]], Coke was appointed chief justice of the [[wikipedia:Court of King's Bench (England)|Court of King's Bench]] in 1613; he also became a member of the [[wikipedia:Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Privy Council]].<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."</ref>
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After several political and judicial skirmishes with [[wikipedia:James VI and I|James I]] and [[wikipedia:|Francis Bacon]], Coke was suspended from the privy council and removed from the bench in 1616.<ref>''Encyclopædia Britannica Online'', s.v. "Sir Edward Coke."</ref> Although he never returned to the bench, Coke did return to Parliament and was elected to that body four times from 1620 to 1629. During this time he took a lead in creating and composing the [[wikipedia:Petition of Right|Petition of Right]]. "This document cited the Magna Carta and reminded Charles I that the law gave Englishmen their rights, not the king ... Coke's petition focused on ... due process, protection from unjust seizure of property or imprisonment, the right to trial by jury of fellow Englishmen, and protection from unjust punishments or excessive fines."<ref>''Bill of Rights Institute'' website, s.v. "[http://29866.bbnc.bbcust.com/page.aspx?pid=920 Petition of Right (1628)]," accessed October 3, 2013.</ref> After this triumph, Coke spent his remaining years at his home, Stoke Poges, working on ''The Institutes of the Laws of England'', another endeavor for which he is rightly famous.<ref>Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."</ref>
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The ''Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England'' focuses on the criminal law of England. Coke transferred his experience as attorney general and judge into the third part of the Institutes by focusing on treason, misprision of treason, and heresy more than on homicide, rape, robbery, and similar crimes. Coke had personally tried several famous treason and libel cases as attorney general, such as the [[wikipedia:Gunpowder Plot|Gunpowder Plot]] of 1605, and his focus is largely based on his experiences.<ref>''Encyclopaedia Britannica Online'', s.v. "Sir Edward Coke."</ref> Coke’s ''Institutes'' were enormously influential in the United States, especially with regard to the construction of the Third and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution. The ''Institutes'' have been cited in over 70 cases decided by the Supreme Court of the Unites States.<ref>LexisNexis search performed May 1, 2008.</ref>
  
 
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
 
==Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library==
Listed with the other parts of Coke's ''Institutes'' in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Coke’s Institutes. 3.v. fol.'' This was one of the sets kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. He may have sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Three of the [[George Wythe Collection]] sources (Goodwin's pamphlet<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings''] (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLVI.</ref>, the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref> Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s. v. [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe "Member: George Wythe"], accessed on March 12, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing) include the fourth (1670) edition of ''The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England'', based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'' 2nd ed. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 2:219 [no. 1784].</ref> Jefferson's copy still exists with the third and fourth parts bound together. It contains manuscript notes not in his hand, but those notes have not been linked to Wythe nor are there any other indications that the volume once belonged to Wythe. [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 10 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> lists the first (1644) edition of ''The Third Part'' based on notes in Jefferson's commonplace book.<ref>''The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government'', ed. Gilbert Chinard (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1926), 14.</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Dean's recommendation and purchased a copy of the first edition.
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Listed with the other parts of Coke's ''Institutes'' in the [[Jefferson Inventory]] of [[Wythe's Library]] as ''Coke's Institutes. 3.v. fol.'' This was one of the sets kept by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. He may have sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Three of the [[George Wythe Collection]] sources (Goodwin's pamphlet<ref>Mary R. M. Goodwin, [http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0216.xml ''The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings''] (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLVI.</ref>, the [https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433 Brown Bibliography]<ref>Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.</ref> and [http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe George Wythe's Library]<ref>''LibraryThing'', s.v. "[http://www.librarything.com/profile/GeorgeWythe Member: George Wythe]," accessed on March 12, 2014.</ref> on LibraryThing) include the fourth (1670) edition of ''The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England'', based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson''.<ref>E. Millicent Sowerby, ''Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson'', (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:219 [[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033648109;view=1up;seq=233 no.1784]].</ref> Jefferson's copy still exists with the third and fourth parts bound together, and it contains manuscript notes not in his hand. Neither have those notes been linked to Wythe, nor are there any other indications that the volume once belonged to Wythe. [[Dean Bibliography|Dean's Memo]]<ref>[[Dean Bibliography|Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean]], Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 10 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).</ref> lists the first (1644) edition of ''The Third Part'' based on notes in Jefferson's commonplace book.<ref>Gilbert Chinard, ed., ''The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government'' (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1926), 14.</ref> The Wolf Law Library followed Dean's recommendation and purchased a copy of the first edition.
[[File:CokeThirdInstitute1644Inscription.jpg|left|thumb|300px|<center>Inscription, front flyleaf.</center>]]
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==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
 
==Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy==
 
Rebound in period-style full blind calf. Includes previous owner's inscriptions on front flyleaf "my hoyle" (multiple times) and "go lovely maid, lay lovely maid Lovely, my lovely Mrs. Smith." Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
 
Rebound in period-style full blind calf. Includes previous owner's inscriptions on front flyleaf "my hoyle" (multiple times) and "go lovely maid, lay lovely maid Lovely, my lovely Mrs. Smith." Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
  
View this book in [https://catalog.swem.wm.edu/law/Record/1689432 William & Mary's online catalog.]  
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Images of the library's copy of this book are [https://www.flickr.com/photos/wolflawlibrary/albums/72157637634574754 available on Flickr.] View the record for this book in [https://wm-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/9ogbnb/01COWM_WM_ALMA51818093600003196 William & Mary's online catalog.]
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===Full text===
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*[http://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/library/CokeThirdPartOfTheInstitutesOfTheLawsOfEngland1644.pdf ''The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England''] (27MB PDF)
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==See also==
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*''[[Book of Entries|A Book of Entries]]''
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*''[[First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England|The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England, or, A Commentary upon Littleton]]''
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*''[[Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England|The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning the Jurisdiction of the Courts]]''
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*[[George Wythe Room]]
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*[[Jefferson Inventory]]
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*''[[Reports of Sir Edward Coke|The Reports of Sir Edward Coke]]''
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*''[[Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England|The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient and Other Statutes]]''
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*[[Wythe's Library]]
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by Sir Edward Coke

The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
CokeThirdPartInstitutes1644.jpg

Title page from The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, George Wythe Collection, Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary.

Author Sir Edward Coke
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Published London: Printed by M. Flesher, for W. Lee, and D. Pakeman
Date 1644
Edition First
Language English
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Pages [7], 243, [18]
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Frontispiece.
The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England is the third volume in a series of books and reports written by Sir Edward Coke (1552 – 1634) in an attempt to provide an exhaustive review of English law. Born on February 1, 1552 at Mileham, Norfolk, Coke was arguably the most prominent lawyer, legal writer, and politician during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a defender of the common law over the use of the Stuarts' royal prerogative.[1]

Coke began his studies in 1567 at Trinity College, Cambridge during the years of the Vestiarian controversy—puritan protests against the Church of England. In 1572 he moved on to study at the Inner Temple, where he was admitted to the bar on April 20, 1578. Coke quickly rose to prominence through his successful execution of several noteworthy cases, such as Shelley's case. Coke's analytical efforts helped to refine the legal doctrines of English law, and his reputation won him a seat in Parliament. He would later become the Speaker of the House of Commons and eventually attorney general.[2] In 1606, after being created serjeant-at-law, Coke was appointed chief justice of the Court of King's Bench in 1613; he also became a member of the Privy Council.[3]

After several political and judicial skirmishes with James I and Francis Bacon, Coke was suspended from the privy council and removed from the bench in 1616.[4] Although he never returned to the bench, Coke did return to Parliament and was elected to that body four times from 1620 to 1629. During this time he took a lead in creating and composing the Petition of Right. "This document cited the Magna Carta and reminded Charles I that the law gave Englishmen their rights, not the king ... Coke's petition focused on ... due process, protection from unjust seizure of property or imprisonment, the right to trial by jury of fellow Englishmen, and protection from unjust punishments or excessive fines."[5] After this triumph, Coke spent his remaining years at his home, Stoke Poges, working on The Institutes of the Laws of England, another endeavor for which he is rightly famous.[6]

The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England focuses on the criminal law of England. Coke transferred his experience as attorney general and judge into the third part of the Institutes by focusing on treason, misprision of treason, and heresy more than on homicide, rape, robbery, and similar crimes. Coke had personally tried several famous treason and libel cases as attorney general, such as the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and his focus is largely based on his experiences.[7] Coke’s Institutes were enormously influential in the United States, especially with regard to the construction of the Third and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution. The Institutes have been cited in over 70 cases decided by the Supreme Court of the Unites States.[8]

Evidence for Inclusion in Wythe's Library

Listed with the other parts of Coke's Institutes in the Jefferson Inventory of Wythe's Library as Coke's Institutes. 3.v. fol. This was one of the sets kept by Thomas Jefferson. He may have sold to the Library of Congress in 1815. Three of the George Wythe Collection sources (Goodwin's pamphlet[9], the Brown Bibliography[10] and George Wythe's Library[11] on LibraryThing) include the fourth (1670) edition of The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, based on Millicent Sowerby's entry in Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson.[12] Jefferson's copy still exists with the third and fourth parts bound together, and it contains manuscript notes not in his hand. Neither have those notes been linked to Wythe, nor are there any other indications that the volume once belonged to Wythe. Dean's Memo[13] lists the first (1644) edition of The Third Part based on notes in Jefferson's commonplace book.[14] The Wolf Law Library followed Dean's recommendation and purchased a copy of the first edition.


Inscription, front flyleaf.

Description of the Wolf Law Library's copy

Rebound in period-style full blind calf. Includes previous owner's inscriptions on front flyleaf "my hoyle" (multiple times) and "go lovely maid, lay lovely maid Lovely, my lovely Mrs. Smith." Purchased from The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Images of the library's copy of this book are available on Flickr. View the record for this book in William & Mary's online catalog.

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References

  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s.v. "Sir Edward Coke," accessed October 3, 2013.
  2. Allen D. Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward (1552–1634) in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed September 18, 2013.
  3. Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."
  4. Encyclopædia Britannica Online, s.v. "Sir Edward Coke."
  5. Bill of Rights Institute website, s.v. "Petition of Right (1628)," accessed October 3, 2013.
  6. Boyer, "Coke, Sir Edward."
  7. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s.v. "Sir Edward Coke."
  8. LexisNexis search performed May 1, 2008.
  9. Mary R. M. Goodwin, The George Wythe House: Its Furniture and Furnishings (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, 1958), XLVI.
  10. Bennie Brown, "The Library of George Wythe of Williamsburg and Richmond," (unpublished manuscript, May, 2012) Microsoft Word file. Earlier edition available at: https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/13433.
  11. LibraryThing, s.v. "Member: George Wythe," accessed on March 12, 2014.
  12. E. Millicent Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1952-1959), 2:219 [no.1784].
  13. Memorandum from Barbara C. Dean, Colonial Williamsburg Found., to Mrs. Stiverson, Colonial Williamsburg Found. (June 16, 1975), 10 (on file at Wolf Law Library, College of William & Mary).
  14. Gilbert Chinard, ed., The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson: A Repertory of His Ideas on Government (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1926), 14.