It is said that Coke first suggested marrying Hatton to Sir Robert Cecil, Hatton's uncle, at the funeral of Lord Burghley, Coke's patron ; he needed to ensure that he would continue his rise under Burghley's son, Cecil, and did this by marrying into the family.

The cornerstone was Holkham House, a " temple to the arts " built by Coke's great uncle.

He had some difficulties dealing with the people employed before he inherited the estates, and when the steward Ralph Cauldwell, appointed by Coke's uncle, retired in 1782, Coke failed to replace him until 1816.

His stately furniture designs complemented his interiors: he designed furnishings for Hampton Court Palace ( 1732 ), Lord Burlington's Chiswick House ( 1729 ), London, Thomas Coke's Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Robert Walpole's pile at Houghton, for Devonshire House in London, and at Rousham.

Hale's jurisprudence struck a middle-ground between Edward Coke's " appeal to reason " and John Selden's " appeal to contract ", while refuting elements of Thomas Hobbes's theory of natural law.

Hale also reorganised the first of Coke's Institutes, which dealt with Thomas de Littleton's Treatise on Tenures ; Hale's edition was the most commonly used, and the first to extract Coke's broader philosophical points.

Thomas Hobbes argued against Coke's theory.

Coke's first case of note was Peacham's Case, in which he dictated that the writing of a sermon by Thomas Peacham which advocated the death of the king – a sermon which was never preached or published – could not constitute treason.

alt = An image of Thomas Coke, Edward Coke's descendant.

As with the Reports, Coke's Institutes became a standard textbook in the United States, and were recorded in the law libraries of Harvard College in 1723 and Brown University in 1770 ; John Jay, John Adams, Theophilus Parsons and Thomas Jefferson were all influenced by it.

Thomas Hobbes, along with Francis Bacon, argued against Coke's theory.

Coke's elder son, Sir John Coke was a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War, while his younger son Thomas Coke was a Royalist.

Few records exist of Thomas Coke's early years, although it is known that he was educated in Longford, Derbyshire, before going to a school in Wandsworth run by French refugees.

Coke's changed position from Attorney General to Chief Justice allowed him to openly attack organisations he had previously supported.

The King was unwilling to accept this decision and instead had him tried by Coke's opponents on the bench, who " not surprisingly " had him found guilty.

John Campbell, in his The Lives of the Chief Justices of England, said that " His reasoning ... is narrow minded ; had utter contempt for method and style in his compositions ", and says that Coke's Reports were " tinctured with quaintness and pedantry ".

His Law Reports, known as Coke's Reports, were an archive of law reports of cases he had participated in, watched or heard of, and started with notes he made as a law student in winter 1572 ; he started fully reporting cases in October 1579.

John Baker has described them as " perhaps the single most influential series of named reports ", and even Francis Bacon, Coke's rival, wrote praisingly of them, saying " Had it not been for Sir Edward Coke's Reports ( which though they may have errors, and some peremptory and extrajudicial resolutions more than are warranted, yet they contain infinite good decisions and rulings over of cases ), for the law by this time had been almost like a ship without ballast ; for that the cases of modern experience are fled from those that are adjudged and ruled in former time ".

In July 1634, officials acting on order of the King had seized Coke's papers, and between then and a 1641 motion in the House of Commons restoring the papers " such as could be found " to Coke's eldest son, nobody knows precisely what happened to them.

In 1993, Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta rehired Sergio Zyman to be the chief of marketing for all Coca-Cola beverage brands, a surprising choice given that Zyman had worked closely with the New Coke campaign, possibly the largest advertising failure in Coke's history.

OK Soda had a more " citric " taste than traditional colas, almost like a fruit punch version of Coke's Fresca.

Warren had already dispatched Major General J. Talbot Coke's brigade of two regular battalions and the Imperial Light Infantry ( raised in Durban ) to reinforce the summit.

Anne had initially been brought to Holkham to partner with his nephew William, who due to Coke's lack of sons would inherit the estate, but they failed to get on.

After Coke's death, however, his jurisprudence " naturally suffered an eclipse ", and the next appearance is in Godden v Hales, in 1686, where the doctrine was twisted to argue that the Crown had the prerogative to dismiss laws of government.

For example, drawing on Coke's statement, James Otis, Jr. declared during the struggle over writs of assistance that it was the duty of the courts to ignore Acts of Parliament " against the constitution and against natural equity ", an argument and struggle that had a significant impact on John Adams.

In America, Coke's decision in Dr. Bonham's Case was used to justify the voiding of the Stamp Act 1765 and writs of assistance, which led to the American War of Independence, and after the establishment of the United States his decisions and writings profoundly influenced the Third and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution while necessitating the Sixteenth.

The Castle doctrine originates from Coke's statement in the Third Institutes that " A man's home is his castle – for where shall he be safe if it not be in his house?

In 1958 she got a part in Peter Coke's play Breath of Spring, which opened at the Cambridge Theatre in March, transferring to the Duke of York's Theatre in August 1958, and running until April 1959.

Frances Coke's forced marriage to John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, the older brother of King James ' favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, was a major factor in her parents ' marital strife.

Coke's father, Robert Coke, was a barrister and Bencher of Lincoln's Inn who built up a strong practice representing clients from his home area of Norfolk, particularly the Townsend family.

His first case was in the Court of King's Bench in 1581, and was known as Lord Cromwell's Case after the claimant, Lord Henry Cromwell, a landlord in Coke's home county of Norfolk.

Coke's descendants through Henry include the Earls of Leicester, particularly Coke of Norfolk, a landowner, Member of Parliament and agricultural reformer.

After returning to Britain and being married, Coke's father died, leaving him the owner of a 30, 000 acre Norfolk estate.

Coke's behaviour during the trial has been repeatedly criticised ; on this weak evidence, he called Raleigh a " notorious traitor ", " vile viper " and " damnable atheist ", perverting the law and using every slip of the tongue as a way of further showing Raleigh's guilt.

Academics have argued that Coke's work in Bonham's Case forms the basis of judicial review and the declaration of legislation as unconstitutional in the United States ; another calls this " one of the most enduring myths of American constitutional law and theory, to say nothing of history ", pointing out that at no point during the Constitutional Convention was Bonham's Case referenced.

Sundblom also conceived Coke's mascot Sprite Boy who appeared in print ads during the 1940s and 1950s.

William Windham, Coke's friend and supporter during the American Revolutionary War

Whatever Coke's meaning, after an initial period when his decision enjoyed some support ( but during which no statutes were declared void ), Bonham's Case was thrown aside in favour of the growing doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty.

On the other hand, it was able to use racism as a selling point, attacking Coke's reluctance to hire blacks and support by the chairman of Coke for segregationist Governor of Georgia Herman Talmadge.

As a teenager Williams was apprenticed with Sir Edward Coke ( 1552 – 1634 ), the famous jurist, and under Coke's patronage, Williams was educated at Charterhouse and also at Pembroke College, Cambridge ( B. A., 1627 ).

The surname " Coke ", or " Cocke ", can be traced back approximately 400 years before Edward Coke's birth, to a William Coke in the hundred of South Greenhoe, now Swaffham.

Coke's mother was Winifred Knightley Coke, who came from a family even more intimately linked with the law than her husband.

Coke became involved in Shelley's Case in 1581, a now-classic case that created a rule in real property that is still used in some common law jurisdictions today and also established Coke's reputation as both an attorney and a case reporter.

While Magruder, in the Scottish Law Review, writes that Coke's " fair fame was tarnished and outraged " by his part in the trial, Boyer notes that Coke was, above all, loyal.

With James unable to declare Coke incompetent, some " colorable excuses " were produced to justify Coke's dismissal ; he was accused of concealing £ 12, 000, uttering " high words of contempt " as a judge, and declaring himself Chief Justice of England.

Despite the marriage Coke was not buried next to Hatton, but instead next to Bridget Paston, who his daughter Anne declared was Coke's " first and best wife ".

Coke's challenge to the ecclesiastical courts and their ex officio oath is seen as the origin of the right to silence ; with his decision that common law courts could issue writs of prohibition against such oaths, and his arguments that such oaths were contrary to the common law ( as found in his Reports and Institutes ), Coke " dealt the crucial blow to the oath ex officio and to the High Commission ".

Increased marketing for drinking tap water might " shrink the pie " for both Coke and Pepsi, whereas increased Pepsi advertising would likely " grow the pie " ( increase consumption of all soft drinks ), albeit while giving Pepsi a larger slice at Coke's expense.

Parliament was eventually dissolved on 25 March 1784, and thanks to Coke's long-standing support of Fox and his actions, the ensuing general election led to Coke losing his seat.

As a result, the bank received some of Coke's publicly traded stock, and SunTrust retains 48. 3 million shares ( 3. 58 %) of Coke as of 2006.

Once exposed, consumer advocates assailed the campaign as misleading and established the Zero Coke Movement to comment on the ethics of Coke's activities.

Major-General John Coke CB ( 1806 – 1897 ) of the 10th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry was a soldier of the East India Company Army, who raised in 1849 the 1st Regiment of Punjab Infantry, renamed in 1903 55th Coke's Rifles ( Frontier Force ).

Released on May 5, 2005 only in Japan, this exclusive version of the PSP game Minna no Golf Portable is a Coca-Cola branded special edition which features costumes for the characters in Coke's red-and-white colors, billboards with Coke branding, Coke " thought bubbles ", Coke bottle-shaped golf clubs, and packaging designed around the Coke theme.