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SIR THOMAS FLEMING (1S44-1613)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 495 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:THOMAS See also:FLEMING (1S44-1613)  , See also:English See also:judge, was See also:horn at See also:Newport, Isle of See also:Wight, in See also:April 1544, and was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1574 . He represented See also:Winchester in See also:parliament from 1584 to 16o1, when he was returned for See also:Southampton . In 1594 he was appointed See also:recorder of See also:London, and in 1595 was chosen See also:solicitor-See also:general in preference to See also:Bacon . This See also:office he retained under See also:James I. and was knighted in 1603 . In 1604 he was created See also:chief See also:baron of the See also:exchequer and presided over many important See also:state trials . In 1607 he was promoted to the chief justiceship of the See also:king's See also:bench, and was one of the See also:judges at the trial of the See also:post-nati in 16o8, siding with the See also:majority of the judges in declaring that persons See also:born in See also:Scotland after the See also:accession of James I. were entitled to the privileges of natural-born subjects in See also:England . He was praised by his contemporaries, more particularly See also:Coke, for his " See also:great judgments, integrity and discretion." He died on the 7th of See also:August 1613 at his seat, See also:Stoneham See also:Park, See also:Hampshire . See See also:Foss, Lives of the Judges .

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