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Coke (SIR EDWARD an English lawyer)

SIR EDWARD, an English lawyer; born in 1551. After finishing his education at Cambridge he went to London, and entered the Inner Temple.

He was chosen recorder of the cities of Norwich and of Coventry, knight of the shire for his county, and, in spite of the rivalship of Bacon, attorney-general. As such he conducted the prosecutions for the crown, notably those of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1613 he became chief-justice of the Court of King's Bench; but his rough temper and staunch support of constitutional liberties brought him into disfavor with King James and his courtiers. In 1621 Coke was committed to the Tower, and soon after expelled from the privycouncil.

In 1628 he was chosen member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire, and ηηπα BEEHIVE COKE OVEN 723,645 tons. Ohio was second with a production of 5,364,242 tons; Alabama third with 4,352,172 tons; and Indiana fourth with 3,898,215 tons. Other States having a production of over

1,000,000 tons were New York, Utah, and West Virginia. The estimated production in 1919 was 41,821,000 tons. Coke produced in bee-hive ovens in 1919 was 19,- 650,000 tons, and the production of coke ovens was 25,997,580 tons. There were imported in 1919 16,486 short tons, valued at $140,653. The exports were 716,- 956 tons, valued at $5,128,119. The value of the by-products from coke ovens in 1918 were $74,602,458. The most important by-product was sulphate of ammonia, with a value of $19,061,777. Toluol was produced with a value of $12,249,702, and benzol, with a value of $11,966,367. greatly distinguished himself by his vindication of the rights of the Commons, and by proposing and framing the famous Petition of Rights. On the dissolution of the Parliament he retired to Buckinghamshire, where he died, in September, 1634. His principal works are: "Reports, from 1600 to 1615," "Institutes of the Laws of England," in four parts; the first of which contains the celebrated commentary on Littleton's Tenures ("Coke upon Littleton"); "A Treatise of Bail and Mainprise," "Complete Copyholder," etc. COL ("neck"), in geography, a depression or pass in a mountain-range. In those parts of the Alps where the French language prevails, the passes are usually named Cols-as the Col de Balme, the Col du Géant, etc.