Edward Coke, oracle of the law [electronic resource] : containing the story of his long rivalry with Francis Bacon: some account of their times and contemporaries: famous trials in which Coke participated: his stand against King James I to maintain the supremacy of the common law: his share in wresting the petition of right from King Charles I: to which is added a statement about the law writings of Coke on which generations of lawyers were trained / by Hastings Lyon and Herman Block.