COOKE, Elisha, a respectable physician, of Boston, and an agent to England to procure the restoration of the charter of Mass., in 1715.

COOKE, Elisha, distinguished in the political history of Massachusetts, was a representative in the general court, counsellor, &c., and died in 1737.

COOKE, Samuel, first minister of the 2d paidgas rish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, died in 1783. n of He was a man of science, and published several in 1736ions. C000 COOO JU INGELI U

COOPER, Samuel, minister in Boston, son of William, whom he succeeded in Brattle-street church; was among the first of those patriots who took part against Great Britain; he died in 1783. COOPER, Miles, D.D., president of King's,College, New-York, a native of England; he came to America in 1762, published a volume of poems, returned to England, and died in 1785.

CORAS, James de, a native of Toulouse, and an author of little merit, died in 1677. CORBET, Johu, a zealous non-conformist, author of several works of merit, died in 1680. CORBET, Dr. Richard, bishop of Norwich, and an ingenious poet, died 1635. His poems were printed in 12mo., under the title of "Poetica Stromata," 1647, and again in 1762. Mr. COOTE, Sir Eyre, a celebrated commander Gilchrist published an edition of them (with his of the East India Company's forces in India, life prefixed) in 1807. Some pleasant anecdotes who gained great renown by his frequent vic-are recorded of him, among which are the foltories over Hyder Ally; in one of which, near lowing; after he was doctor of divinity, he sung Porto Novo, Hyder's army consisted of more ballads at the Cross at Abingdon. On a marthan 150,000 men, and General Coote's of only ket-day he and some of his comrades were at 10,000. He was born in 1726, and died at Madras, April, 1783.

the tavern by the Cross; the ballad-singer complained he had no custom, and could not put off COOTWICH, John, of Utrecht, a civilian his ballads. The jolly doctor puts off his gown, and traveller. The account of his "Travels and put on the ballad-singer's leathern jacket; into Jerusalem and Syria," was published in and being a handsome man, and a rare full voice, Latin, 4to., 1619. It is very curious, and is now he presently vended a great many, and had a great become extremely scarce. The dates of his audience. His conversation was extremely pleabirth and death are uncertain. sant. Dr. Stubbins was one of his cronies; he COPERNICUS, Nicholas, an eminent as-was a jolly doctor, and a very good house-keeper. tronomer, born at Thorn, in Prussia, in 1472. He As Dr. Corbet and he were riding in Lob-lane, adopted and improved the hypothesis of the Py-in wet weather, (it is an extraordinary deep, thagoreans, which made the sun the centre of dirty lane,) the coach fell, and Corbet said, tha the system, and the earth to move, not only Dr. S. was up to the elbows in mud, and he was round the sun, but round its own axis also; and up to the elbows in Stubbins. His chaplain, established that system of the world which goes Dr. Lushington, was a very learned and ingeby his name, and is now universally received. nious man; and they loved one another. The This he performed in a work entitled "De Re-bishop would sometimes take the key of the wine volutionibus Orbium Cœlestium." Apprehensions, arising from the novelty of his opinions, had, it is said, almost brought him to drop all thoughts of publishing his book, which had lain in his escrutoir not nine years only, (which is the term Horace prescribes, but almost four times nine years. At length, however, by the importunity of his friends, he was prevailed upon to let it come out; but a copy of it was no sooner brought to him, than he was presently seized with a violent effusion of blood, which put an end to his life, May 24, 1543.

COPPA, Cavalier, a disciple and imitator of Guido, died in 1665.

cellar, and he and his chaplain would go and lock themselves in, and be merry; then, first he lays down his episcopal hood, "There lies the doctor;" then he puts off his gown, "There lies the bishop;" then it was, "Here's to thee, Corbet." "Here's to thee Lushington."

CORBULO, Domitius, a Roman general, who carried his arms against the Parthians, and placed Tigranes on the throne; he destroyed himself, A.D. 67.

CORDAY D'ARMANS, MaryAnne Charlotte, a native of Normandy, who avenged the death of her lover, by stabbing Marat, the author of it, to the heart, for which she was guillotined in 1793. CORDEMOI, Geraud de, a French academi

COQ, Peter le, a French ecclesiastic, superior of the Eudistes, and distinguished for his piety,cian, and a great partisan of Descartes' systems; learning, &c., died in 1777.

COQUES, Gonzalo, a Flemish painter, who excelled in historical conversations; he died in

1684.

he wrote several works, and died in 1722.

CORDIER, or CORDERIUS, Mathurin, a schoolmaster, died at Geneva, in 1564, aged 85; having continued the office of teaching till within a few days of his death. Calvin was his scholar. Among many other works, he published "Colloquia," one of the most popular of our school books.

CORDUS, Aulus Crementius, a Roman, author of a historyof the civil wars of Rome, much commended by Tacitus and Seneca.

CORDUS, Euricius, a German physician and poet, intimate with Erasmus; died in 1535.

CÓRDUS, Valerius, son of the preceding; devoted himself particularly to botany, and traversed the mountains of Germany, &c.; he died in 1554.

CORAM, Captain Thomas, born in 1668, spent the first part of his life as master of a colonial trading vessel. While he resided in that part of London which is the common residence of seafaring people, business often obliged him to come early into the city and return late: when he had frequent occasions of seeing young children exposed, through the indigence or cruelty of their parents. This excited his compassion so far, that he projected the Foundling Hospital; in which humane design he laboured 17 years, and at last, by his sole application, obtained the royal charter for it. Indeed he spent a great part of his life in serving the public; and with CORELLI, Arcanselo, a famous musician of so total a disregard to his private interest, that, Italy, born at Fusignano, a town of Bologna, in toward the latter part of it, he was himself sup-1653. His merits, as a performer on the violin, ported by the voluntary subscription of public were sufficient to attract the patronage of the spirited persons. This singular and meinorable great, and to silence, as they did, all competiman died March 29, 1751, and was interred, tion; but the remembrance of these is at this pursuant to his desire, in the vault under the day absorbed in the contemplation of his excelchapel of the Foundling Hospitai lencies as a musician at large, as the author of CORAS, John de, professor of law at Toulouse new and original harmonies, and the father of at the age of 18; afterwards chancellor to the a style not less noble and grand than elegant queen of Navarre; he was imprisoned for favour-and pathetic. He died at Rome, in 1713, and ing the protestants, and murdered in 1572. was buried in the church of the Rotunda, othe

wise called the Pantheon; where, for many years after his decease, he was commemorated by a solemn musical performance on the anniversary of his death.

CORINNA, a Greek poetess, who gained the prize five times over Pindar.

CORNELISZ, Cornelius, of Haerlem, was eminent as a painter.

CORNELIUS, bishop of Rome, after Fabian, was banished, and soon after died, in 252. CORNETO, Adrian, an Italian ecclesiastic, much employed by Innocent VII. and his sucCORIO, Bernardine, a historian of Milan; hecessors, as a legate; he was an author of some wrote the history of his country, which is much distinction. esteemed, and died in 1500.

He

CORNUTUS, a grammarian and philosopher CORIOLANUS, C. Marcius, a famous Ro-of merit, and tutor to the poet Persius. man captain, who took Corioli, a town of the was put to death by Nero, A D. 44. Volsci, whence he had his name. At last, dis- CORNWALLIS, Sir Charles, second son of gusting the people, he was banished Rome by Sir William Cornwallis, a man of superior abithe tribune Decius. He then went to the Volsci,lities; was sent by James I. as ambassador to and, persuading them to take up arms against Spain; and died in 1630. the Romans, they encamped within four miles CORNWALLIS, Charles, marquis, a brave of Rome. Here Coriolanus would not listen to British general, born in 1738. In the American a peace, which the Romans sued for, till he was war he displayed great military talents, took prevailed upon by his wife Veturia, and his possession of Philadelphia, contributed to the mother Volumnia, who were followed by all the reduction of South Carolina, aud defeated Gen. Roman ladies in tears. He was at last put to Gates with a very inferior force. But, in 1781, death by the Volsci as a traitor, who had made he was under the necessity of surrendering to the them quit their conquest: upon which the Ro-united American and French army; soon after man ladies went into mourning: and in the which he returned to England. He was next same place where his blood was shed, there was sent out as governor-general of India; where in a temple consecrated to Female Fortune. December, 1790, he took Bangalore, which was CORLET, Elijah, was master of the gram-followed by the defeat of Tippoo Saib, who demar school, in Cainbridge, Mass., for 40 or 50 livered to his lordship his two sons as hostages. years, and was much esteemed; he died in 1687. Lord Cornwallis was next appointed lord lieuCORNARIUS, or HAGUENBOT, John, a tenant of Ireland; where he quelled an insurGerman physician, early distinguished as a rection, defeated a French invading army, and scholar. He was the translator of the works of succeeded in effecting a union of the two kingHippocrates, &c., and died in 1558. doms. In 1801, he was employed as minister ||plenipotentiary in France, where he signed the preliminary treaty of peace at Amiens. His lordship again accepted the government of India, in 1805; but died at Ghazepoor, in the pro vince of Benares, on the 5th of October, in the same year.

CORNARO, Lewis, a noble Venetian, born 1464, wrote in Latin a celebrated treatise" On the Advantages of a Temperate Life." By following his own rules, he lived to upwards of 100 years of age, dying in 1565.

CORONEL, Paul, a native of Segovia, employed by Cardinal Ximenes in the publication of his Polyglott Bible; he died in 1524.

CORNARO, Helena Lucretia, of the same family with the above, a prodigy of learning; of whom it is related, that all people of quality or fashion who passed through Venice, were more solicitous to see her, than any of the curiosities CORONELLI, Vincent, a Venetian geograof that superb city. She was born at Venice, in pher, made cosmographer to the French king 1646, and educated at Padua, where she obtain-in 1685. He published 400 geographical charts, ed the degree of doctor, and died in 1685. and died in 1718.

CORNAZZANI, Anthony, a native of Placentia, in the 15th century; he wrote the lives of the Virgin Mary, &c.

CORNBURY, lord, governor of New-York in 1702, was universally detested for his despotism, bigotry, and injustice; he was removed in 1708.

CORRADINI, Peter Marcellinus, a learned civilian, and favourite of Pope Clement XI., he died in 1743.

CORRADUS, Sebastian, a grammarian and professor at Bologna, died in 1556.

CORREGIO, Antonio da, a most extraord: nary painter, so called from Corregio, a town CORNEILLE, Michael, a French painter, in the dukedom of Modena, where he was born who gained a prize for one of his pieces, and in 1494. This artist is remarkable for having was afterwards professor of the academy of Pa-borrowed nothing from the works of other men ris; he died in 1708. Corregio spent the greater part of his life at CORNEILLE, Peter, a celebrated French Parma; and notwithstanding the many fine poet, born at Rouen, in 1606, and died 1684. His works have been often printed, and consist of above 30 comedies and tragedies.

CORNEILLE, Thomas, a French poet also, but inferior to Peter Corneille, whose brother he was. He died 1709, aged 84.-Thomas Corneille was the author of " A Dictionary of Arts," in 2 vols. folio; and A Universal Geographical and Historical Dictionary," in 3 vols. folio.

CORNELIA, a Roman lady, who educated her sons Tiberius and Caius Gracchus, and when they were killed, exhibited great fortitude.

CORNELISZ, Lucas, a painter, of Leyden, who became chief painter to Henry VIII. of England.

CORVELISZ, James, a Dutch painter of the 6th century, his descent from the cross is admired.

pieces that he made, and the high reputation he had gained, he was extremely poor and always obliged to work hard for the maintenance of his family, which was somewhat large. He was very humble and modest in his behaviour, lived very devoutly, and died much lamented in 1534, when he was but 40 years of age. The cause of his death was a little singular. Going to receive 50 crowns for a piece that he had done, he was paid it in a sort of copper money called quadrinos. This was a great weight, and he had 12 miles to carry it, though it was in the midst of summer. He was overheated and fatigued; in which condition, Indis creetly drinking cold water, he brought on a pleurisy which put an end to his life.

CORROZET, Giles, a French bookseller, author of several works of merit ; died in 1568.

CORSINI, Edward, an Italian, a man of great erudition; author of some valuable works on criticism, philosophy, &c. ; died in 1765.

CORT, Cornelius, a native of Holland. His engravings are the best which that country has produced; he died in 1578.

CORTESI, William, a French painter, patronised by Alexander VIII., died in 1679. CORTESI, Giovanna, a female painter of miniatures, of Florence; died in 1736.

CORTEZ, Ferdinand, a Spanish gentleman, famous, under the emperor Charles V., for the conquest of Mexico. He died in 1554, aged 63. CORTEZI, Paul, a learned Italian, a patron of literature; was bishop of Urbino, and died in 1510.

when travelling in Asia, was taken prisoner, and detained in captivity many years; he published an account of Indian plants.

COSTA, Emanuel, a Portuguese lawyer, professor at Salamanca, 1550.

COSTA, John, professor of law, at Cahors, died in 1637.

COSTA, Margaret, an Italian poetess, whose works were published at Paris.

COSTANZO, Angelo di, an Italian, wrote a history of Italy, and was a poet of considerable merit; he died about 1590.

COSTARD, George, an English scholar, who wrote 15 treatises, chiefly on astronomy, died in 1782.

COSTE, Peter, a native of Uzez, who trans CORTI, Matthew, a native of Pavia, a phy-lated into French, Locke on the understanding. sician to Clement VII., wrote on fevers, &c. and Newton's optics, &c.; he died in 1747. and died in 1544.

CORTICELLI, Salvatore, a monk of Bologna, author of a much admired Italian grammar, died in 1770.

CORYATE, Thomas, a famous English traveller, chiefly on foot. He visited almost all parts of the world, and published relations of his voyages and travels; but the singularity of the titles, and of his manners, exposed him to mach ridicule, and occasioned the character of his works to be misrepresented, as well as that of their author, who was certainly a man of great learning. His best known works are, "Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months' Travels in France, Savoy, Italy," &c. He was born at Odcombe, in Somersetshire, 1577, and died at Surat in the East Indies, 1617.

COSBY, William, governor of the colonies of New-York and New Jersey, died in 1736.

COSTER, Lawrence, an inhabitant of Haer lem, supposed by the Dutch to have been the inventor of printing, about 1430. He died in 1440.

COSTHA, Ben Luca, a christian philosopher, of Balbec, who translated several Greek works into Arabic.

COTA, Rodriguez, a native of Toledo, whose tragi-comedia de Colisto & Meliba, has appeared in Latin and French, flourished in the 16th century.

COTELERIUS, John Baptist, a learned Frenchman, who published the works of all the fathers in the Apostolic age, with learned notes, died in 1686.

COTES, Roger, an illustrious English mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer, born in 1682, died 1716.

COTES, Francis, an English painter, in oil

COSIERS, John, a painter of Antwerp, pa-and crayons, died in 1770. tronised by many crowned heads.

COTIN, Charles, a French writer, and elo

COSIMO, Andrew and Peter, Italian painters,quent preacher, known for the severity of Boithe former excelled in the claro-obscuro, the leau and Moliere's satires against him, died in latter in ludicrous pieces. Peter died in 1521. 1678: COSIN, John, an English prelate, deprived of COTOLENDI, Charles, an advocate in the his preferments by preaching a seditious ser-parliament of Paris, and respectable as an aumon; but at the restoration he was re-instated thor. He wrote the life of Columbus, of de and preferred to the see of Durham. He wrote Sales, and numerous other works. various works, and was a learned and humane man. He died in 1672.

COSME, John Baseillac, eminent as a lithotomist, whose instruments were much used formerly; he was banished through the envy of his rivals; and died at Paris, in 1786.

COSMO I., son of John de Medici, who raised himself to the Supreme authority of the state of Florence, and put down all conspiracies against him; he died in 1574.

COTTA, John, a Latin poet, author of some epigrams and orations, died at Viterbo in 1511.

COTTE, Robert de, of Paris, director of the Royal Academy of Architecture, who adorned many of the public buildings in Paris; died in 1735.

COTTEREL, Sir Charles, groom-porter to James I., and master of requests to Charles II., well skilled in modern languages.

COTTIN, Sophia de, wife of M. Cottin, a COSMO II., grandson of Cosmo I, succeed-banker of Paris, died in 1807. She was the athor ed his father Ferdinand, in 1609; he was a of Malvina, Matilda Mansfield, the exiles of Sibenevolent prince, and died in 1621. beria, and other novels. COSMO III., succeeded his father Ferdinand II.; he was a patron of learning, and one of the richest sovereigns of Europe; he died in 1723. COSNAC, Daniel de, a native of Limousin, raised to the see of Valence, and afterwards to that of Aix, died in 1708.

COTTINGTON, Francis, lord, chancellor of the exchequer, and first lord of the treasury, in the reign of Charles I., died in 1651.

COTTON, or COTÓN, Peter, a learned Jesuit, born in France, in 1564, wrote several books on controversial subjects, and died in 1626. COSPEAU, Philip, a French prelate, repre- COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce, an eminent Eng. tented to have been very eloquent; died in 1646. lish antiquary, born at Denton, in HuntingdonCOSSART, Gabriel, a native of Pontoise, who shire, in 1570. His writings are very numerous sisted Labbe in his grand collection of coun-and valuable; but it may reasonably be questils, which was contained in 28 vols. fol o, died tioned, whether he has not done more service in 1674. to learning, by securing, as he did, his valuable COSSE, Charles de, marechal de Brissac, a library for the use of posterity, than by all his French general of great military talents, patron-writings. The Cottonian library is deposited bed by the king of France, was ambassador to in the British Museum. Charles V, and died in 1553. COTTON, Charles, lived in the reigns COSTA, Christopher, a Portuguese, who, Charles and James II. He had something of a

COURTENAY, John, a member of parlia ment, and commissioner of the treasury, known also as a writer, died in 1816.

nius for poetry, and was particularly famous for burlesque verse. He translated one of Corneille's tragedies, called "Horace," printed in 1671. He published a volume of poems on several occa- COURTILZ, Garien de sieur de Sandras, of sions: "The Wonders of the Peak in Derby-Paris, confined in the Bastile 9 years, for his poshire;' "Scarronides, or Virgil Travestie ;"litical works, died in 1712.

and "Lucian burlesqued, or the Scoffer scoffed:" COURTIVRON, Gaspard, marquis de, a naan edition of the three last mentioned, was tive of Dijon, a soldier and a scholar; he was printed in 1715, and has been frequently reprint-wounded in attempting to save the life of mared. But the chief of all his productions, and shal Saxe, and died in 1785.

for which perhaps he deserves the best praise COURTNEY, William, archbishop of Canof his countrymen, is his translation of "Mon-terbury, a persecutor of Wickliffe, and his fl taigne's Essays." lowers, died in 1396.

COTTON, Dr., author of "Visions in Verse, COURTOIS, James, a painter, who delineafor the instruction of Younger Minds," was dis-ted the battles of the French, in the campaigns tinguished for his great care, humanity, and at-of Italy; he died in 1676.

tention as a physician, at St. Albans, where he COURTOIS, William, also a painter, much died Aug. 2, 1788. admired, was patronised by Alexander VII.

COUSIN, John, a painter and mathematician, in France; he was called the Great, and was patronised by Henry II., Francis II., Charles IX., and Henry III.

COTTON, John, one of the most distinguish-and died in 1673. ed early ministers of New England, born in England; he sustained a high reputation for wisdom and learning; his publications were numerous. COTTON, Seaborn, son of John, minister of Hampton, N. H., was born at sea, died in 1686. COUSIN, James Anthony Joseph, an emiHe was a good scholar, and an able preacher. nent mathematician, was professor of natural COTTON, John, son of the Rev. John Cot-philosophy in the college of France, and afterton, minister of Plymouth, Mass., and of Charles- wards of mathematics in the military school; ton, South Carolina. He was a faithful minis- he died in 1808. ter, and eminent for his knowlege of the Indian language. He revised and superintended the printing of Elliot's Bible.

COTTON, John, minister of Newton, Mass., highly respected, died in 1757.

COTYS, a king of Thrace, in the age of Alexander, died about 356 B. C. A second of the name lived in the age of Pompey, and a third in the age of Augustus.

COUDRETTE, Christopher, a French ecclesiastic, opposer of the Jesuits, and of the pope's bull, unigenitus, died in 1774. His chief work is a history of the Jesuits.

COULON, Lewis, a French priest, whose geographical works are much esteemed, died in 1664.

COUPERIN, Francis, a Frenchman, much admired for his execution on the harpsichord, died in 1733.

COURAYER, Peter Francis, a French divine, author of Paul's history of the council of Trent, in French, &c., died in 1776.

COUSTON, Nicholas, sculptor to the French king; his pieces adorn the palaces of Paris, Versailles, and Marly; he died in 1733.

COUSTON, William, brother to the preceding, director of the academy of painting and sculpture, died in 1746.

COUSTON, William, son of the preceding was improving himself in the arts, at Rome, where he died in 1777.

COUTHON, Georges, a native of Orsay, in Auvergne, a member of the convention in the French revolution, odious for his ferocious and vindictive conduct; he was guillotined in 1794

COUVREUR, Adrianne le, a French actress, who played with much applause, died in 1730. COVEL, John, an English divine, chaplain to the embassy to Constantinople, published an account of the Greek church, and died in 1722.

COVERDALE, Miles, bishop of Exeter, in the COUPLET, Philip, a Jesuit missionary to time of Edward VI., was ejected from his see China, wrote some works on the Chin e lan-by queen Mary, and thrown into prison. Being guage; he died in 1693. liberated by queen Elizabeth, he attached himself to the puritans, and died in 1567, at the age of 81. He assisted Tindal in the English version of the Bible, published in 1537, and afterCOURCELLES, Stephen de, a native of Gewards revised and corrected the edition of it in neva, professor of divinity at Amsterdam, and a larger volume, with notes, in 1540. author of various theological tracts, died in COWARD, William, a medical and meta1658. physical writer, born at Winchester, in 1656, COURT DE GEBELIN, Anthony, a protest-died between 1722 and 1725. ant minister of Lausanne, author of "Monde COWELL, Dr. John, a learned and eminent Primitif," in 9 vols. 4to, a work of great merit, civilian, born at Ernesborough, in Devonshire, died in 1784. in 1554 and well known by a laborious work COURTANVAUX, Francis Cæsar, marquis which he published at Cambridge, in 1607, entide, a French nobleman, who distinguished him-tled "The Interpreter." Besides, this, he pubself in the wars of Bohemia and Bavaria; he lished, in 1605, "Institutiones Juris Anglicaui, died in 1781. &c., that is, "Institutes of the Laws of England, COURTEN, William, son of a tailor, of Me-in the same method as Justinian's Institutes." nix, in the Netherlands, who made himself im-He died in 1611. mensely rich, by making French hoods, in Lon- COWLEY, Abraham, an eminent English don; he died in 1636. poet, born in London, in 1618, died 1667,and was COURTEN, William, descendant of the pre-buried in Westminster Abbey, near Chaucer and ceding, who collected whatever was curious and important, in medallic and antiquarian history, and no less than 38 vols. in folio, and 8 in 4to, all of which were purchased for the British Museum, for the sum of 20,0001. He died in 1702.

Spenser, where a monument was erected to his memory. Cowley was a staunch loyalist; and when Charles II. heard of his death, he was pleased to say, "that Mr. Cowley had not lef a better man behind him in England." AddiIlson has observed, that of all authors, none eve