The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Robert Cooke ( - )

References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 43. A true Storie of the Catholicke Prisoners in Yorke-Castle, their Behaviour and Defence of the Catholick Religion, when they were carried by Force to hear the Protestants Sermons, An. 1608, with certain Reasons against hailing Men by Strength and Violence to Sermons that in Conscience they abhorre. Sir Christopher Wharton Priest, is said to have approved this Libel, which the Author saith was finished, An. 1601. in festo Cathedræ Sti. Petri Apostoli; yet in a Catalogue of their Martyrs, printed permissu Superiorum, An. 1608. He was by their own Confession executed at Yorke 18 May 1600. Did he rise from the Dead to approve this Libel? as they write two Bishops did, to subscribe the Council of Nice. Note, The English Martyrology referr'd to in this Note (which is added in the MS. by the Learned Rob. Cooke B D) is in this Musæum, by the same Token that Henry Garnet, who was executed for the Gun-Powder-Treason, is in the List of the Martyrs. This MS. was the Gift of Alderman Stanhope.