The trial of King Charles I
This article is relevant to AQA AS LAW01, OCR AS Unit G151 and WJEC AS Unit 2.
John Cooke was born in Leicestershire in 1608, into what we would today call a low-income family of tenant farmers. He worked hard at school and won a place for ‘poor and needy scholars’ at Wadham College, Oxford. In 1624 he left Oxford for Gray’s Inn, where he began the 7 years of study then required in order to qualify as a barrister. A year after Cooke arrived at Gray’s Inn, Charles I became king of England, Scotland and Ireland. A quarter of a century later these two men were to come face to face in one of the most famous trials in English history.
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