In 1604, the English judge Sir Edward Coke declared that “the house of everyone is to him as his Castle and Fortress.” The intervening years turned the saying to “and Englishman’s home is his castle.” With apologies to the Scots, Irish and Welsh, it is perhaps not surprising that the widespread...
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