in 1874
the _Burgergemeinde_ was replaced by an _Einwohnergemeinde_.

AUTHORITIES.--A. Eichhorn, _Episcopatus Curiensis_ (St Blasien, 1797);
W. von Juvalt, _Forschungen uber die Feudalzeit im Curischen Raetien_,
2 parts (Zurich, 1871); C. Kind, _Die Reformation in den Bisthumern
Chur und Como_ (Coire, 1858); Conradin von Moor, Geschichte von
Curraetien (2 vols., Coire, 1870-1874); P. C. von Planta, _Das alte
Raetien_ (Berlin, 1872); _Idem, Die Curraetischen Herrschaften in der
Feudalzeit_ (Bern, 1881); _Idem, Verfassungsgeschichte der Stadt Cur
im Mittelalter_ (Coire, 1879); _Idem, Geschichte von Graubunden_
(Bern, 1892). (W. A. B. C.)

COKE, SIR EDWARD (1552-1634), English lawyer, was born at Mileham, in
Norfolk, on the 1st of February 1552. From the grammar school of Norwich
he passed to Trinity College, Cambridge; and in 1572 he entered
Lincoln's Inn. In 1578 he was called to the bar, and in the next year he
was chosen reader at Lyon's Inn. His extensive and exact legal
erudition, and the skill with which he argued the intricate libel case
of Lord Cromwell (4 Rep. 13), and the celebrated real property case of
Shelley (1 Rep. 94, 104), soon brought him a practice never before
equalled, and caused him to be universally recognized as the greatest
lawyer of his day. In 1586 he was made recorder of Norwich, and in 1592
recorder of London, solicitor-general, and reader in the Inner Temple.
In 1593 he was returned as member of parliament for his native county,
and also chosen speaker of the House of Commons. In 1594 he was promoted
to the office of attorney-general, despite the claims of Bacon, who was
warmly supported by the earl of Essex. As crown lawyer his treatment of
the accused was marked by more than the harshness and violence common in
his time; and the fame of the victim has caused his behaviour in the
trial of Raleigh to be lastingly remembered against him. While the
prisoner defended himself with the calmest dignity and self-possession,
Coke burst into the bitterest invective, brutally addressing the great
courtier as if he had been a servant, in the phrase, long remembered for
its insolence and its utter injustice--"Thou hast an English face, but a
Spanish heart!"

In 1582 Coke married the daughter of John Paston, a gentleman of
Suffolk, receiving with her a fortune of L30,000; but in six months he
was left a widower. Shortly after he sought the hand of Lady Elizabeth
Hatton, daug