Manchester.
[Sir Robert Coke was son and heir to Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief
Justice of the Kings Bench. The Cokes had been settled for many
generations in the county of Norfolk. Camden has traced the pedigree of
the family to William Coke of Doddington in Norfolk, in the reign of
King John. They had risen to considerable distinction under Edward
III., when Sir Thomas Coke was made Seneschal of Gascoigne. From him,
in the right male line, was descended Robert Coke, the father of Sir
Edward. See Campbell's _Lives of Chief Justices_, vol. i. p. 240.]
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