CONSTABLE (RICHARD), (?) printer in London, Smithfield, 1649–50. Believed to have been brother or nephew of Francis Constable, q.v. He is mentioned amongst those who were bound over, in 1649, not to print seditious books. [Calendar of State Papers, 1649–50, pp. 522, 523.]
CONVERT (G.), see Calvert (Giles).
COOKE, or COOK (THOMAS), (?) bookseller in London, 1642. His name is found on a pamphlet entitled Instructions from the House of Commons … 1642. [E. 111 (13).] A stationer of this name took up his freedom June 1st, 1635. [Arber, iii. 687.]
COOKE (WILLIAM), bookseller in London; Near Furnivall's Inn Gate in Holborn, 1632–41. A publisher chiefly of law books, but also shared with Andrew Crooke, the copyrights in several plays, including William Habington's Queene of Arragon, 1640, and several of those of James Shirley. He was also associated with M. Walbancke in the publication of Sir Henry Spelman's De Sepultura, 1641. The last heard of him is in 1641, when he issued Sir Ed. Coke's The compleate Copy-Holder, with a preface from his own pen.
COOPER, see also Cowper.
COOPER (THOMAS), journeyman bookseller, 1665. Only known from the following notice of his death in Smyth's Obituary, p. 67:—"Septem. 11. 1665. Tho. Cooper, journeyman bookseller to Mr. R. Royton [i.e., Richard Royston], died ex peste."
COSSINET (FRANCIS), bookseller in London, (1) Golden Anchor in Tower Street at Mincheon lane end; (2) Tower Street at the corner of Mincing Lane; (3) Anchor & Mariner in Tower Street. 1658–69. Dealt in sea-faring books and Quaker literature. A list of seven books published by him in 1659 will be found at the end of the second edition of J. Heydon's Advice to a Daughter, which he published in that year. [B.M. 8415, a. 11.]
COTES (ELLEN), printer in London; Barbican, Aldersgate Street, 1653–70 (?). Widow of Richard Cotes, q.v. At the time of the Survey of the press made in 1668 she employed three presses, two apprentices and nine pressmen. [Domestic State Papers, Charles II, vol. 243, p. 181.]
