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Julius Caesar (1557/1558 – 18 April 1636) was an English judge and
politician. He was born near Tottenham in Middlesex. His father was Giulio Cesare Adelmare an Italian
physician to Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, descended by the female line from the dukes
of Cesarini. |
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He was educated at
Magdelen College, Oxford, and afterwards studied at the University of Paris, where in the
year 1581 he was made a doctor of civil law. Two years later he was awarded a similar
degree at Oxford, and became doctor of the canon law. He represented Reigate, Bletchingley
and Windsor in Parliament. He held many
high offices during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I,
including a judgeship of the admiralty court (1584), a mastership in chancery (1588),
treasurer of the Inner Temple in 1593 and a mastership of the court of requests (1595). |
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was knighted at Greenwich by King James in May of 1603, and became Chancellor and Under
Treasurer of the Exchequer 1606–1614. In 1614 he was appointed Master of the Rolls,
an office which he held till his death in 1636. His manuscripts, many of which are now in
the British Museum, were sold by auction in 1757 for a sum of around £500. He
was also Master of St Katherine's Hospital. |
