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b. 5 Mar. 1563, 2nd s. of Richard Coke (d.1582) of Trusley, Derbys. and Mary, da. and h. of Thomas Sacheverell of Sacheverell Hall, Kirkby, Notts.D. Coke, The Last Elizabethan, 1-3. educ. ?Westminster Sch.; Trin., Camb. 1576, scholar 1580, BA 1581, jnr. fell. by 1583, MA 1584, snr. fell. 1584; incorp. MA Oxf. 1584. M. Young, Servility and Service: The Life and Work of Sir John Coke, 8. m. (1) bet. 8 May and 14 Sept. 1604, Marie (d. Mar. 1624), da. of John Powell of Preston, Herefs., 5s. (3 d.v.p.) 4da. at least 1 d.v.p.); Young, Coke, 33-4, 124-6; Coke, Last Elizabethan, 102-3; J.P. Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, ii. 365. (2) Nov. 1624, Joan, da. of Sir Robert Lee, alderman, of London, wid. of William Gore of Tottenham, Mdx., s.p. Add. 69877, f. 68; Young, Coke, 128. Kntd. 9 Sept. 1624. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 187. d. 8 Sept. 1644. sig. John Coke.
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?Lecturer in rhetoric, Trin., Camb. 1584–91. Young, Coke, 8–9.

Collector of fines for Fulke Greville* by 1590. Ibid. 11.

Collector, subsidy, Radlow and Greytree hundreds, Herefs. 1610; Add. 69884, f. 33. commr. Forced Loan, Mdx. 1626, CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 435. oyer and terminer, the Verge 1627; C181/3, f. 217. j.p. Mdx. and Leics. 1631, Derbys. 1632; C231/4, f. 48. steward, Wirksworth manor and Soke, Derbys. 1631;Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 175. gov. Charterhouse hosp., London 1635–d.;G. S. Davies, Charterhouse in London, 353; LMA, Acc/1876/G/02/02, f. 55. commr. new buildings, London and Westminster 1636, piracy, Suss. 1637. T. Rymer, Foedera, ix. pt. 2, p. 8; C181/5, f. 68.

Paymaster, RN 1599–1604, Young, Coke, 15. commr. RN 1618–28, Ibid. 45, 56, 190. compounding for purveyance and carriage 1622; Ibid. 91–2. master of Requests 1622–5; Ibid. 103. commr. to investigate (Sir) Henry Mervyn* and Sir William St. John 1623,Ibid. 111; CSP Dom. 1619–23, pp. 501, 507. trade 1625; Rymer, viii. pt. 1, p. 59. sec. of state 1625 – 40; PC 1625–40; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 100; APC, 1625–6, p. 181; Young, Coke, 263. member, Council of War 1626-at least 1628; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 328; SP16/28, f. 77. commr. sale of royal lands 1626, Univ. London, Goldsmiths’ ms 195, i. f. 37v. RN inquiry 1626–7; CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 494. member, High Commission, Canterbury province 1626-at least 1633; R.G. Usher, Rise and Fall of High Commission, 348. commr. Admlty. 1628–38, CSP Dom. 1628–9, p. 333; Young, 256. survey, arms in the Tower 1629, Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 1625–40 ed. J. Broadway, R. Cust and S.K. Roberts (L. and I. Soc. spec. ser. xxxiv), 35. ordnance office 1630, 1635, CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 158; 1634–5, p. 527. composition for knighthood 1630, inquiry into complaints against Jerome Beale, master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge 1630, exacted fees 1630, to search the recs. of Sir Robert Cotton* 1630, Ibid. 1629–31, pp. 174–5, 236, 305. examine seizures made by Capt. Kirke in Canada 1630, Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 35. inquiry into execution of the poor laws 1631, CSP Dom. 1629–31, p. 474. manufacture of saltpetre and gunpowder 1631, Ibid. 1631–3, pp. 6, 97. repair of St. Paul’s Cathedral 1631, govern Virg. plantation 1631, Rymer, viii. pt. 3, p. 192. survey contents of King’s Chapel, Whitehall Palace 1632, to hear London’s accts. regarding land sold to the City 1632, Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 37. reprieve of felons 1633, CSP Dom. 1631–3, p. 547. Treasury 1635 – 36, inquiry into postmaster of Eng. 1637, Cal. of Docquets of Ld. Kpr. Coventry, 42, 45. repair of Tower of London 1638. Rymer, ix. pt. 2, p. 157.

Member, Fishery Soc. 1632. SP16/221/1.

Parlimentarian
COKE, John (1563-1644), of Hall Court, Kynaston, Herefs.; Garlick Hill, London and Tottenham, Mdx.; later of Melbourne Hall, Melbourne, Derbys.
Main residences: Hall Court, Kynaston, Herefs. and Garlick Hill, London and Tottenham, Mdx.; Melbourne Hall, Melbourne, Derbys.
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A.D.T.
Volume
Commons 1604-1629
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COKE, John (1563-1644)

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Oxford 1644
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