File:Portrait of Edward Coke (1669) by R White.jpg

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R. White.
Title
original:
Latina: Vera Effigies Viri Clariſs EDOARDI COKE Equitis aurati nuper Capitalis Iuſticiarij ad Placita coram Rege tenenda aſsignati.
translation:
English: True portrait from life of the illustrious EDWARD COKE, knight, recently appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench (literally "Chief Justice for pleas to be held before the King").
Description
English: An engraved portrait of Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634), an English barrister, judge and, later, opposition politician, who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
Date 1669
date QS:P571,+1669-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium engraving on paper.
Inscriptions below portrait: "Vera Effigies Viri Clariſs EDOARDI COKE / Equitis aurati nuper Capitalis Iuſticiarij / ad Placita coram Rege tenenda aſsignati / R: White sculpuit [engraved by R. White]".
Source/Photographer Frontispiece of Edward Coke (1669) The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes. The Fourth Edition. Authore Edw. Coke, Milite (4th ed.), London: Printed for A[ndrew] Crooke, W[illiam] Leake, A[bel] Roper, F[rancis] Tyton, T[homas] Dring, T[homas] Collins, J[ohn] Place, W[illiam] Place, J[ohn] Starkey, T[homas] Bassett, R[obert] Pawlett, S[amuel] Heyrick, and G[eorge] Dawes, booksellers in Fleetstreet and Holborn OCLC: 9515015.
Other versions File:The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Concerning High Treason, and other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes (4th ed, 1669).pdf

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