Sir Edmund Anderson, an English judge, born in Lincolnshire about 1540, died Aug. 1, 1005. He was made chief justice of the com-mon pleas in 1582, and distinguished himself by his zeal for the established church and his harshness toward dissenters. He was one of the commissioners for the trial of Mary queen of Scots, and afterward of Raleigh. His "Re-ports of Cases argued and adjudged in the time of Queen Elizabeth, in the Common Bench " (fob, London, 1644), and "Resolutions and Judgments on the Cases and Matters agitated in all the Courts of Westminster in the latter end of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth " (4to, London, 1655), are much esteemed.