JAMES ALTHAM
(Sir James Altham)
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Sir James Altham (died 1617) was an English judge and briefly a member of parliament. A friend of Lord Chancellor Bacon, Altham opposed 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.