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James Altham

English politician; (1555-1617)

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About James Altham

Sir James Altham, of Oxhey, Hertfordshire, was an English judge, briefly a member of the Parliament of England, and a Baron of the Exchequer. A friend of Lord Chancellor Francis Bacon, Altham opposed Edward Coke but advanced the laws of equity behind the fastness of the Exchequer courts, so long considered almost inferior. Through advanced Jacobean royalism he helped to prosecute the King's enemies and centralise royal power of taxation. With Sir Edward Bromley, he presided at the Lancashire witch trials in 1612.

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Occupation: judge, politician, barrister
Position held: Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1589 Parliament, Baron of the Exchequer

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Kingdom of England

Born

1555

Died

1617, February 21, 1617

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