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JOHN COWELL (1554—1611)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 346 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:COWELL (1554—1611)  , See also:English jurist, was See also:born at Ernsborough, See also:Devonshire . He was educated at See also:Eton, and See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, ultimately becoming See also:professor of See also:civil See also:law in that university, and See also:master of Trinity See also:Hall . In 1607 he compiled a law See also:dictionary, The Interpreter, in which he exalted the king's See also:prerogative so much that he was prosecuted before the See also:House of See also:Commons by See also:Sir See also:Edward See also:Coke, and saved from imprisonment only by the interposition of See also:James I . His See also:book was burnt by See also:order of the House of Commons . Dr See also:Cowell also wrote a See also:work entitled Institutiones See also:Juris Anglicani . He died at See also:Oxford on the 11th of See also:October 1611 .

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