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SIR JULIUS CAESAR (1557-1558-1636)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 943 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JULIUS See also:CAESAR (1557-1558-1636)  , See also:English See also:judge, descended by the See also:female See also:line from the See also:dukes de' Cesarini in See also:Italy, was See also:born near See also:Tottenham in See also:Middlesex . He was educated at Magdalen See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, and afterwards studied at the university of See also:Paris, where in the See also:year 1581 he was made a See also:doctor of the See also:civil See also:law . Two years later he was admitted to the same degree at Oxford, and also became doctor of the See also:canon law . He held many high offices during the reigns of See also:Elizabeth and See also:James I., including a judgeship of the See also:admiralty See also:court (1584), a mastership in See also:chancery (1588), a mastership of the court of See also:requests (1595), See also:chancellor and under treasurer of the See also:exchequer (16o6) . He was knighted by See also:King James in 1603, and in 1614 was appointed See also:master of the rolls, an See also:office which he held till his See also:death on the 18th of See also:April 1636, He was so remarkable for his See also:bounty and charity to all persons of See also:worth that it was said of him that he seemed to be the See also:almoner-See also:general of the nation . His See also:manuscripts, many of which are now in the See also:British Museum, were sold by See also:auction in 1757 for upwards of £500 . See E . See also:Lodge, See also:Life of See also:Sir See also:Julius See also:Caesar (181o) ; See also:Wood, See also:Fasti Oxonienses, ed . See also:Bliss; See also:Foss, Lives of the See also:Judges .

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