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The first official silk (King's Counsel/Queen's Counsel/Senior Counsel/Silk) was Francis Bacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Counsel#Historical_background) in 1596 or 1597, though Aubrey de Vere represented the King in Court in 1139 (A History of the English Bar and Attornatus To 1450 Herman Cohen, p. 63).
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