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SIR EDMUND ANDERSON (1530-1605)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 959 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:EDMUND See also:ANDERSON (1530-1605)  , See also:English lawyer, descended from a Scottish See also:family settled in See also:Lincolnshire, was See also:horn in 1J30 at Flixborough or See also:Broughton in that See also:county . After studying for a See also:short See also:time at See also:Lincoln See also:College, See also:Oxford, he became in 1550 a student of the Inner See also:Temple . In 1579 he was appointed See also:serjeant-at-See also:law to See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth, and also an assistant See also:judge on See also:circuit . As a See also:reward for his services in the trial of See also:Edmund Campian and his followers (1581), he was, on the See also:death of See also:Sir See also:James See also:Dyer, appointed See also:lord See also:chief See also:justice of the See also:Common Pleas (1582), and was knighted . He took See also:part in all the leading See also:state trials which agitated See also:England during the latter years of Elizabeth's reign . Though a See also:great lawyer and thoroughly impartial in See also:civil cases, he became notorious by his excessive severity and harshness when presiding over the trials of catholics and nonconformists; more markedly so in those of Sir See also:John See also:Perrot, Sir See also:Walter See also:Raleigh, and John Udall the puritan See also:minister . See also:Anderson was also one of the commissioners appointed to try See also:Mary queen of Scots in 1586 . He died on the 1st of See also:August 16o5 at Eyworth in See also:Bedfordshire . In addition to Reports of Many See also:Principal Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Time of Queen Elizabeth in the Common See also:Bench, published after his death, he See also:drew up several expositions of statutes enacted in Elizabeth's reign which remain in See also:manuscript in the See also:British Museum .

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