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SIR JOHN COKE (1563-1644)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 655 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:COKE (1563-1644)  , See also:English politician, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:March 1563, and was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge . After leaving the university he entered public See also:life as a servant of See also:William See also:Cecil, See also:Lord See also:Burghley, afterwards becoming See also:deputy-treasurer of the See also:navy and then a See also:commissioner of the navy, and being specially commended for his labours on behalf of See also:naval See also:administration . He became member of See also:parliament for See also:Warwick in 1621 and was knighted in 1624, afterwards representing the university of Cambridge . In the parliament of 1625 See also:Coke acted as a secretary of See also:state; in this and later parliaments he introduced the royal See also:requests for See also:money, and defended the See also:foreign policy of See also:Charles I. and See also:Buckingham, and afterwards the actions of the See also:king . His actual See also:appointment assecretary See also:dates from See also:September 1625 . Disliked by the leaders of the popular party, his speeches in the See also:House of See also:Commons did not improve the king's position, but when Charles ruled without a parliament he found Coke's See also:industry very useful to him . The secretary retained his See also:post until 1639i when a scapegoat was required to expiate the humiliating treaty of See also:Berwick with the Scots, and the scapegoat was Coke . Dismissed from See also:office, he retired to his See also:estate at See also:Melbourne in See also:Derbyshire, and then resided in See also:London, dying at See also:Tottenham on the 8th of September 1644 . Coke's son, See also:Sir See also:John Coke, sided with the parliament in its struggle with the king, and it is possible that in later life Coke's own sympathies were with this party, although in his earlier years he had been a defender of See also:absolute See also:monarchy .

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