Reports

…revise the “errors” in his Reports, and on November 14, 1616, he was dismissed. Thereupon, presumably in search of an influential friend, he offered his daughter in marriage to Sir John Villiers, brother of George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham. Coke’s wife objected and hid the child, who was then…

Coke’s 11 volumes of Reports appeared between 1600 and 1615, and two posthumous volumes followed. Coke commented rather than reported, but he was careful to supply a copy of the court record of each case. As the only formal series of collected law cases available at the time, his…