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WILLIAM NOY (1577-1634)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 842 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:NOY (1577-1634)  , See also:English jurist, was See also:born on the See also:family See also:estate of Pendrea in Buryan, See also:Cornwall, in 1577, his See also:father belonging to a family whose See also:pedigree is included in the visitation of Cornwall in 162o . He went to See also:Exeter See also:College, See also:Oxford, but See also:left without taking a degree . He entered See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1594 . From 1603 until his See also:death he was elected, with one exception, to each See also:parliament, sitting invariably for a See also:constituency of his native See also:county . For several years his sympathies were in antagonism to the See also:court party . Every See also:commission that was appointed numbered See also:Noy among its members, and even those who were opposed to him in politics acknowledged his learning . A few years before his death he was See also:drawn over to the See also:side of the court, and in See also:October 1631 he was created See also:attorney-See also:general, but was never knighted . It was through his See also:advice that the See also:impost of See also:ship-See also:money was levied . Noy had See also:long suffered from See also:stone, and died in See also:great agony on the 9th of See also:August 1634; two days later.he was buried at New See also:Brentford See also:church . His See also:principal See also:works are On the Grounds and See also:Maxims of the See also:Laws of this See also:Kingdom (1641) and The Compleat Lawyer (1661) .

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