James Cook

, who writes himself Cocus, received his first breath at Chale in the Isle of Wight, his Grammatical education in Wykehams School, his Academical in New coll. of which he became perpetual Fellow in 1592. being then accounted a good Latin Poet, as several of his copies, which afterwards were printed, testifie. In 1608. he proceeded in the Civil Law, being about that time Rector of Houghton in Hampshire, and in good esteem for his profession and excellencies in the Greek tongue. His works are,

Juridicum trium questionum ad majestatem pertinentium determinatio, in quarum primâ & ultimâ processus judicialis contra H. Garnetum institutus ex jure civili & canonico defendetur, &c. Oxon. 1608. qu. Dedicated to Bilson Bishop of Winchester, to whom he was then Chaplain.

Poematavaria. 1611 He gave up the ghost in sixteen hundred and eleven, but where buried, unless in his Church of Houghton, I know not. One James Co [•] k of Warwick Chirurgeon, and a pretender to Physick, hath published certain matters relating to Physick and Chirurgery, in the Reign of Oliver and after; and therefore not to be taken for the same with the Civilian.