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

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