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

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