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

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