Norfolk beginnings, 1552-1570 -- Roads south: Norwich, Cambridge, Holborn -- Learning the law -- Practicing the law -- Magistrates and ministers: county politics, 1572-1583 -- Challenges to authority: county politics, 1583-1592 -- Understanding authority, and will: Coke's "artificial reason" -- The great cases: Shelley, Chudleigh, and Slade -- Coke's historical learning -- Anne Coke Stubbes and the Puritan movement -- Sir Edward and mistress Anne -- Character -- The parliament of 1593 -- The queen's attorney and Cecil's man -- The end of the reign.