Ontario High School History of England . question of thekings rights was aired in the courts, Francis Bacon, Vis-count St. Albans, the lord chancellor, one of the greatestnames in the history of English thought (p. 243), steadilysupported the royal claims, while Sir Edward Goke, chief-justice of the court of Kings Bench, took the oppositeview of the law. To punish Coke, James dismissed himfrom his great office in 1616 ; evenjudges were thus not safe if theyopposed the kings claims. TheHouse of Commons found at last anopening to retaliate upon judges relations to suitors werethen less r
Ontario High School History of England . question of thekings rights was aired in the courts, Francis Bacon, Vis-count St. Albans, the lord chancellor, one of the greatestnames in the history of English thought (p. 243), steadilysupported the royal claims, while Sir Edward Goke, chief-justice of the court of Kings Bench, took the oppositeview of the law. To punish Coke, James dismissed himfrom his great office in 1616 ; evenjudges were thus not safe if theyopposed the kings claims. TheHouse of Commons found at last anopening to retaliate upon judges relations to suitors werethen less restricted than they arenow. The small j udicial salaries wereusually supplemented by fees, and ajudge often accepted a present fromone side or the other. Bacon received,in this manner, large amounts,paid while judgment was was no evidence that he hadbeen influenced by these payments,for his judgments were adverse to at least some of those who had given money. In 1621the House of Commons, only too glad to attack the recent. Francis Bacon Viscount St. Albans (1561-1626) 258 HISTORY OF ENGLAND defender of monopolies, impeached Bacon. The House ofLords tried the case; conviction was certain, and evenBacon himself admitted that it was just. For acceptingbribes he was dismissed from office, imprisoned for a time,and heavily fined. The Plymouth colony, 1620.—It was in Jamess reign thatEngland at last gained a firm footing in America. In 1607the English began a successful colony in Virginia (p. 240),with its capital at Jamestown, so named in honour of theking. Religion had little to do with the beginnings ofVirginia, for its founders went there simply to make theirfortunes. But another colony was soon founded withreligion as its chief motive. James had carried out histhreat to harry the Puritans out of the land. Some of theseearnest people, known as Independents, or Separatists(p. 236), finding their meetings broken up, themselves oftenimprisoned, and life made intolera
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