What did Sir Edward Coke argue in Fuller’s Case?

In Fuller’s Case (1607–1608), Sir Edward Coke asserted the supremacy of the common law against attempts by the ecclesiastical courts to expand their jurisdiction. During a disputation regarding the king's power to withdraw cases from the courts, Coke famously argued that the common law was the supreme law and declared that "the king in his own person cannot adjudge any case."1