lawyer sir february english member parliament studying christ college cambridge fuller legal career began employed examine witnesses hampered later representation religious group conform established church_of_england fuller repeatedly contention ecclesiastical courts including expelled zeal defended client returned member parliament campaigned extension laws outside parliament successfully brought patents case undermined right crown issue patents accurately predicted attitude taken decades later returned parliament fuller considered leader opposition conflict government policy fighting patent blue opposing proposed union scotland legal economic grounds known fuller case began challenging eventually got sir agree common law courts power free imprisoned ecclesiastical prisoners encounters ecclesiastical courts described considered elder statesman introducing bills ecclesiastical reform statutory management customs duties continued sit parliament death february early life career fuller born neat hall isle merchant london december admitted christ college cambridge graduated joining year initial upset noted fuller reader staple inn discharged fined fuller highly successful gray reader dean chapel february treasurer fuller engaged legal activities example arranged lecturer stocks church london april december employed repeatedly examine witnesses charged sir career begun fuller soon found odds authorities religion religion chose represent favoured prosecuted based faith fuller represented charged having written discovery discipline allegedly book judge instructed jury find guilty leave fuller protested forced court following collapse case ministers tried fuller provided legal representation case complicated ministers july proclaimed elizabeth deposed new king europe certainly saw ministers confined fuller offering represent ministers convicted attributed highly professional resistance lawyers owed fuller confined august parliament patents fuller returned apparently thanks influence immediately began campaigning government attempts extend laws protestant church_of_england government introduced bills second sent house_of_lords april protested fuller dangerous good subjects equal equity law according records motion fuller committee striking title man fuller involved patents cases continued left parliament patents initially intended provide protection merchants new industries making england attractive country conduct business granting patents highly popular monarch statute potential raising revenue expected pay heavily patent unlike tax raise method raising crown money public unrest result patent normally directed monarch time problematic instead temporary specific imported industries long term came common including salt led showdown crown parliament agreed november turn power administer patents common law courts time elizabeth revoked number restrictive damaging capable addressed common law playing cards granted june began proceedings allen patent crown represented sir attorney general england wales fuller appeared allen argued crown right restrict games common good said free trade principles rendered patent invalid fuller stole stated new trade new engine tending trade good realm king grant monopoly patent reasonable time subjects learn consideration good bring invention accurately predicted attitude taken decades later leader opposition fuller stand election dissolution returned parliament highly active opposing government point academics consider leader opposition formal title time year fuller opposed patent blue presented petition economic grievances delayed passage bill supported restoration removed ministers attacked powers government announced plans formal union england scotland project treated great suspicion house_of_commons fuller took lead opposing racist language saying december scots countries like merchants aimed drumming support elements wright concludes main concern economic issues fuller argued scottish merchants english ones markets handle influx saying fit seek room place admit legal constitutional element proposal allow scottish citizens born union english citizens fuller argued right parliament believed extension lead future civil liberties english citizens fuller case case fuller began challenging ecclesiastical court established monarch near unlimited power vastly unpopular common lawyers members parliament idea law challenged authorities appointment archbishop_of_canterbury caused issue grow importance zeal hardly fail produce atmosphere principles issues logic judges particularly sir began unite parliament challenging tried people based internal thoughts private beliefs trap catch men unlawful process speculation finding known fuller case fuller clients fined non stated procedure jurisdiction christ anti christ fuller held custody contempt court bench argued lay matter claimed fell jurisdiction end fuller convicted contempt sent fleet prison november common law judges members summoned king told argue allow decide unable argue properly instead standing merely denying statements group dismissed week later sir speaking judges argued ecclesiastical courts jurisdiction long temporal matters involved happened matter common law courts point king position relation law authority decide matter brought known case james stated cases express authority law king decide royal person judges delegates king challenged saying king person case criminal treason etc party party ought determined court justice according law custom england stated common law king james replied king law law king king judges bishops judges interpret laws suffer interpret easily laws rejected stating monarch subject individual subject law gained sufficient knowledge law right interpret pointed knowledge demanded mastery artificial reason requires long study experience man attain victorious freely left continued issue prohibition later career death fuller considered elder statesman parliament influence somewhat weakened encounters high commission star chamber introduced bills reform remove ecclesiastical committees courts passed june later rejected lords november began campaigning customs duties statutory framework claimed autonomous body trusted parliament given jurisdiction speech june said laws england high inheritance land king subjects directed guided customs king pleasure increased consent subjects customs laid subjects goods merchandise acts parliament wright notes apparently greeted complete silence possibly mps agreed civil liberties eroded felt dangerous reclaim february fuller died home buried village parish church march estate passed wife sarah sister eldest son nicholas died months later leaving year old son
Nicholas Fuller (lawyer)