This is Episode 8, the opening of Arc III — English Liberty — and the first of the series to turn from the question of how to govern without a king to the harder English question of how to bind a king who very much remains on his throne. It is the story of Sir Edward Coke and the idea he did more than any single man to forge: that the law stands above the crown. We trace what the common law actually was — a law its own practitioners claimed no one had made, found rather than