John Hooker (English constitutionalist)
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John Hooker (c. 1525 – 1601) was an early Elizabethan writer.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Exeter, Devon, England, Hooker received an excellent classical education. As a civil lawyer and a humanist, he also was a chamberlain of Exeter. He was an editor of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles.
[edit] Life's Work
John Hooker wrote cautiously on mixed government and the revision of the estates. Published in 1572, he wrote Order and usage of the keeping of a parlement in England. He was very committed to the protestant, nearly puritan, lay culture which lent its character to Elizabethan England. He took much inspiration from the Modus tenendi parliamentum, a treatise from the 14th century.
He also wrote a biography of Peter Carew.
[edit] Bibliography
- Dangerous Positions; Mixed Government, the Estates of the Realm, and the Making of the "Answer to the xix propositions", Michael Mendle, University of Alabama Press, 1985. pp 51,
[edit] External links
- Portrait of Hooker
- S. Mendyk, ‘Hooker , John (c.1527–1601)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005, accessed 4 June 2007
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