(Sir John), an eminent lawyer and poet, born about the year 1570. He first distinguished himself by his poem Noce Teipiam on the Immortality of the Soul. He became attorney-general, and speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland; and afterward was appointed lord chief justice of the court of King's Bench in England, but died before his installation, in 1626. He published many law tracts; but was esteemed more of a scholar and a wit, than of a lawyer.