From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Cooke (Six Preacher)
John Cooke (Six Preacher)
Rev. John Cooke (1646/7 – 1726) was a post-Restoration
Church of England clergyman.
References
He was the son of Thomas Cooke of Bromsgrove, [1] D. Ingram-Hill, The Six Preachers of Canterbury
Worcestershire and was educated at Christ Church, Ox- Cathedral, 1541--1982. [Canterbury] 1982. p. 70.
ford (matriculated 1663, B.A. 1666, M.A. 1669). He was [2] English Short Title Catalogue [1].
rector of Cuxton, Kent (1674–1677), of Mersham, Kent Persondata
(1677–1726), and rector of St George the Martyr with St
Name Cooke, John
Mary Magdalene, Canterbury (1692–1726). He was ap-
pointed a Six Preacher of Canterbury Cathedral in 1687 Alternative names
and was Proctor for the diocese of Canterbury in 1699. Short description
He died on 13 August 1726 and was buried in the parish Date of birth
church at Mersham.[1]
Place of birth
His widow published his Thirty Nine Sermons on Several
Occasions in 1729 (second edition in 1736) and Some consid- Date of death 1726
erations touching the payment of tythes: address’d to the pro- Place of death
fessors of religion, commonly call’d Quakers, in the parish of
Mersham in about 1729/1730.[2]
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