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    Chronica sive Flores Historiarum cum appendice,’ 5 vols. 8vo (Eng. Hist. Society), 1841–4.
  1. ‘The Black Prince, an Historical Poem, written in French by Chandos Herald, with a translation and notes’ (Roxburghe Club), 4to, 1842.
  2. ‘Poema quod dicitur Vox Clamantis, auctore Joanne Gower’ (Roxburghe Club), 4to, 1850.
  3. ‘Catalogus Codicum MSS. qui in Collegiis Aulisque Oxoniensibus hodie adservantur, 2 partes,’ Oxford, 1852, 4to.
  4. ‘Catalogi Codd. MSS. Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ pars 1’ (codd. Græci), Oxford, 4to, 1853.
  5. Id. ‘Partis 2 Fasc. 1.’ (codd. Laudiani), Oxford, 4to, 1853.
  6. Id. ‘Pars 3’ (codd. Canoniciani), Oxford, 4to, 1854.
  7. ‘Report to H.M. Government on the Greek Manuscripts yet remaining in libraries of the Levant,’ 1858, 8vo, and 1881.
  8. ‘Letter in Reports on the Antiquity of the Utrecht Psalter,’ 1874.
  9. ‘The Apocalypse of St. John the Divine represented by Figures, reproduced in facsimile from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library’ (Roxburghe Club), 4to, 1876.

[London Guardian, No. 1861, pp. 1089–90, signed J. W. B[urgon, Dean of Chichester]; Athenæum, 2803; Academy, 480; Times, 12 July 1881; Libr. Assoc. Trans., 1881–2, p. 13; information from Coxe's son and son-in-law; personal knowledge.]

S. L-P.

COXE or COCKIS, JOHN (fl. 1572), translator, probably of Brasenose College, Oxford, where one of his name was allowed to determine Michaelmas term 1546, and determined 1547 (Boase, Registrum Univ. Oxon.), or, Wood says, possibly a student of Christ Church in 1555, translated Bullinger's ‘Questions of Religion cast abroad in Helvetia by the Adversaries of the same … reduced into XVII Commonplaces’ (black letter); H. Bynneman for G. Byshop, London, 1572, 8vo, in the British Museum; also his ‘Exhortation to the Ministers of God's Worde in the Church of Christ;’ John Alde, London, 1575 (Wood; Ames); and ‘A Treatise on the Word of God by Anth. Sadull, written against the Traditions of Men,’ printed for John Harison, 1583, 8vo (Maunsell).

[Boase's Registrum Univ. Oxon. (Oxford Hist. Soc.), 213; Wood's Fasti (Bliss), i. 123; Tanner's Bibl. Brit. 205; Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert), 890, 972, 1156; Maunsell's Catalogue, 25, 94.]

W. H.

COXE, PETER (d. 1844), poet, was a son of Dr. Coxe, physician to the king's household in the reign of George II, and a brother of the Venerable William Coxe, archdeacon of Wiltshire [q. v.] He was educated at Charterhouse School, which he entered at the age of ten on a presentation from George II, performed by George III, and left when only thirteen. He followed the business of an auctioneer in London, but having obtained a competency spent his later years in retirement. He was the author of an anonymous poem published in 1807, entitled ‘Another Word or Two; or Architectural Hints in Lines to those Royal Academicians who are Painters, addressed to them on their re-election of Benjamin West, Esq., to the President's Chair;’ of a political tractate published in 1809, entitled ‘The Exposé; or Napoleon Buonaparte unmasked in a condensed statement of his Career and Atrocities;’ and of ‘The Social Day, a Poem in four Cantos,’ published in 1823. He died 22 Jan. 1844.

[Gent. Mag. 1844, new ser. xxii. 652–3; Brit. Mus. Cat.]

T. F. H.

COXE or COX, RICHARD (d. 1596), divine, matriculated as a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, on 27 Nov. 1578, proceeded B.A. 1581–2, and on 16 Dec. 1583 was incorporated in that degree at Oxford, where he proceeded M.A. 1584 as a member of Gloucester Hall. On 17 May 1589 he was instituted to the rectory of Diss, Norfolk, on the presentation of Henry, earl of Sussex, but the earl's right being disputed, Coxe was ejected and an incumbent whom the earl had previously ejected re-entered. In November 1591 Coxe was reinstated, but before long was again turned out. At last, having obtained the queen's letters patent to void all other presentations, he was, on 2 Dec. 1593, instituted to the rectory for the third time, and held it until his death, which took place in 1596. He wrote ‘Richard Coxe, his Catechisme,’ printed by T. Orwin, 1591, 8vo, and, Wood believed, also published some sermons.

[Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. ii. 222; Wood's Fasti (Bliss), i. 225; Blomefield's Norfolk, i. 18; Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert), p. 1247.]

W. H.

COXE, RICHARD CHARLES (1800–1865), archdeacon of Lindisfarne, was born in 1800, and educated at Norwich grammar school. He was elected scholar of Worcester College, Oxford, in 1818, and graduated B.A. in 1821 and M.A. in 1824. He was ordained deacon in 1823, and priest in the following year. After for some time acting as chaplain of Archbishop Tenison's chapel, Regent Street, London, he obtained in 1841 the vicarage of Newcastle-on-Tyne. In 1843 he was appointed honorary canon of Durham. From 1845 till he left Newcastle he received an an-