... themselves upon the oath ex officio. Nicholas Fuller, counsel for some Nonconformists in the 1607 case, was forthwith prosecuted in the High Commission for ‘schism’ in respect of remarks made in argument. He relied on the immemorial custom for learned counsel to say what they could...

... of Court, and the prominence of barristers in groups of godly activists. This chapter evaluates whether it is possible to generalize about the involvement of lawyers in religious conflicts, and analyses the lives and careers of Catholic Edmund Plowden, the puritan Nicholas Fuller, and the Erastian John...

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