John Hooker was an early Elizabethan writer.

Bio

John Hooker received an excellent classical education. As a civil lawyer and a humanist, he also was a chamberlain of Exeter. He was an editor of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles.

Life's Work

Very familiar with classical constitutional thought, John Hooker, a philodorian, wrote cautiously on mixed government and the revision of the estates. Published in 1572, he wrote Order and usage of the keeping of a parlement in England. He was very committed to the protestant, nearly puritan, lay culture which lent its character to Elizabethan England. He took much inspiration from the Modus tenendi parliamentum, a treatise from the 14th century.

Bibliography

• Dangerous Positions; Mixed Government, the Estates of the Realm, and the Making of the "Answer to the xix propositions", Michael Mendle, University of Alabama Press, 1985. pp 51,