Male credulity in regard to Coke has been the cause of so much direct and indirect suffering to women that it is not surprising that they now attempt to get behind “the Oracle,” and question the Spirit itself of the English Constitution. Many other writers besides Prynne refer to Coke’s want of care. “In 1615 the King told him to take into consideration and review his Book of Reports; wherein, as His Majesty is informed, be many extravagant and exorbitant opinions set down and published for positive and good law.” (Chalmers’ Biog. Dict.) “The Institutes published in his lifetime were very incorrect. The 4th part not being published till after his death, there are many and greater inaccuracies in it.” One example in the contested passage may be noted. He says that those who had no freehold had no vote. He did not die until 1634, and the notes for the “Fourth Institute” were the last work of his life. But Granville’s “Reports” prove that by the Parliaments of 1621 and 1628 the Franchise was declared to be vested in _inhabitant householders whether freeholders or not_, so he was incorrect as to that statement at least. (2) That, through prejudice, he could be blinded to Justice can be seen in that picture preserved by his Biographers of his hounding Sir Walter Raleigh to his death by virulent unjudicial denunciations; or in that other when he and his followers made a riot with swords and staves in seizing his daughter from the home in which his wife (formerly Lady Hatton) had placed her. The King’s Council severely reprimanded him for his illegal action then. (_See_ “The Letter of the Council to Sir Thomas Lake regarding the Proceedings of Sir Edward Coke at Oatlands,” “Camden Miscell.,” vol. v.)