Footnotes
[23:1] This piece (ascribed to Spenser) was printed in The Phœnix' Nest, 4to, 1593, where it is anonymous. Todd has shown that it was written by Mathew Roydon.
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SIR EDWARD COKE. 1549-1634.
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
First Institute.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. . . . The law, which is perfection of reason.[24:1]
First Institute.
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.[24:2]
Third Institute. Page 162.
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
Semayne's Case, 5 Rep. 91.
They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32.
Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.
Debate in the Commons, May 17, 1628.
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,
Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.[24:3]
Translation of lines quoted by Coke.