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Which treason trials did Sir Edward Coke prosecute?

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He supervised state prosecutions in several major treason trials, including those of the earls of Essex and Southampton (1600–01); Raleigh (1603); and the conspirators involved in the Gunpowder Plot (1605), an attempt by Catholic opponents to blow up the House of Lords.

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