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	Governor Nicholas Cooke
		Nicholas Cook continued to serve as Governor of the Colony, subsequently the State, of Rhode Island during the earlist phases of the Revolution until May of 1778.
		Nicholas Cooke married Hannah Sabin (c1722-1792) of Killingly, CT in 1740, who was related to Sabin Tavern owner James Sabin.
		RI Historical Cemetaries, Nicholas Cooke and his family were originally buried in a family lot near their land on what is now Transit Street in Providence.
	www.gaspee.org /NicholasCooke.html (1482 words)

	Richard Thomas Cooke
		Nicholas, like his father was prominent in local affairs.
		Nicholas and Margaret had thirteen children between 1882 and 1903.
		Private Richard Thomas Cooke 1889 is commemorated on the Pyalong State School Honour Roll, on the doors of the small chapel at Assumption College.
	www.users.bigpond.com /peter_pidgeon/richard_cooke.htm (2204 words)

	Nicholas Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Nicholas Bacon (1509–February 20, 1579) was an English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, notable as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and as the father of philosopher/statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
		He was born at Chislehurst, Kent, the second son of Robert Bacon (1479 - 1548) of Drinkstone, Suffolk.
		In 1553 he married his second wife Anne (1528 - 1610), daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, by whom he had two sons, Anthony Bacon (1558 - 1601) and Francis Bacon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Bacon (647 words)

	William Nichols Cook
		On 14 May 1779 Wm Nicholas Cook was appointed constable in the district of Salathiel Martin. [Martin’s district encompassed the northern part of present-day Yadkin County.] On 12 August 1779, as Wm.
		Nicholas Cook was named to a road jury. He appears on jury lists in 1781 and 1782 as Wm.
		Cook and Phillip Cook witnessed the will of Mildred Meredith on 2 February 1796 and both proved it in court on 13 August 1796. On 10 May 1796, as William Nicholas Cook, he proved he was charged with one poll too many in 1796 (he was charged for two).
	home.nc.rr.com /rwbaird/cook/Williamnicholscook.htm (878 words)

	stillwell (stilwell) genealogy
		Nicholas Stillwell or Stilwell, progenitor of most, if not all, of the families of the name in America, is said to have married one Abigail Hopton in England and had issue by her of two sons, Richard and Nicholas, whom he brought with him to America shortly after their mother's death.
		Nicholas, second son of the emigrant Nicholas, married the widow Elizabeth (nee Huybert) Morgan and had issue by her of Nicholas, Rebecca, Ann, Richard, John, Catharine, Mary, Elias, and Thomas.
		Thomas, fourth son of emigrant Nicholas, is said to have married one Martha Balien or Billop and to have issue by her of Thomas, Nicholas, Ann.
	jb.stillwell.com /04mythsandfacts.htm (1525 words)

	The Living Church: Search Results
		Cooke, who had been treasurer for nine years, resigned Jan. 6, apparently to move to Virginia with her husband, the Rev. Nicholas Cooke, who had been named rector of St. John's Church, McLean.
		Cooke had moved about $1.5 million that was to have been deposited in church accounts at a bank and brokerage house to personal accounts she maintained at the same institutions.
		Cooke said she experienced "a breakdown precipitated by many factors external to me and to the workplace" and that she underwent a series of extensive psychiatric exams.
	episcopalarchives.org /cgi-bin/the_living_church/TLCarticle.pl?volume=212&issue=1&article_id=6 (1980 words)

	Hostage to Fortune
		Nicholas' poem was probably offered to his wife as comfort for the death that summer of the second of their baby daughters.
		Nicholas felt he was failing his wife in furnishing her with `fruits of mind' but not fruits of the body; perhaps he felt his sexual powers to be waning.
		Anne Cooke's most significant and enduring contribution to the fortunes of her two sons, however, came not from her family connections, nor from her humanistic erudition, but from her deeply Protestant religious convictions.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/j/jardine-hostage.html (5438 words)

	Fall-out from Episcopal financial scandal Christian Century - Find Articles
		Cooke, who served as treasurer of the national Episcopal Church from November 1986 until January 31, 1995, has been accused by the church of diverting some $2.2 million in church funds to her personal use.
		Though acknowledging "deep remorse and regret" over her actions, Cooke has claimed that they were caused by a "breakdown precipitated by many factors external to me and related td the workplace." One of the highest-ranking women in U.S. religious circles, Cooke earned a $125,000 annual salary.
		Cooke's husband, Nicholas Cooke, recently resigned his position as rector of 1,700-member St. John's Episcopal Church in McLean, Virginia, an upscale suburb outside Washington, D.C. He announced his resignation just hours before the leadership at St. John's went into a closed-door session to discuss the Cookes' situation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n18_v112/ai_16997243 (332 words)

	Anne & Sir Nicholas Bacon
		Judging by the portraits of Francis Bacon, Sir Nicholas and Lady Bacon, it is quite impossible for Sir Nicholas to have been the blood father of Francis.
		Franciscus Bacon." Sir Nicholas knew that the lad's prospects lay elsewhere, with the Queen herself, and he was not going to do anything to allow her to shirk her parental responsibility.
		Sir Nicholas puposely left the lad nothing so as to force the Queen's hand and to leave her without an excuse for providing for him and recognizing her own son.
	www.sirbacon.org /links/anne_&_sir_nicholas_bacon.htm (1677 words)

	Constance Hopkins & Nicholas Snow in Records
		The lands of Nicholas Snow are described as "The fales of their ground which came ouer in the shipe called the Anne according as their were case.
		"Nicholas Norton compl agst Mr Joseph Hull, in an action of trespas vpon the case, to the dam xxx li.
		Nicholas and Constance Hopkins Snow had 12 children : Mark, born 1628; Mary, born c,1630; Sarah, born c.1632; Joseph, born c.1634; Stephen, born c.1636; John, born c.1638; Elizabeth, born c.1640; Jabez, born c.1642; Ruth, born c.1644; unnamed child, born c.1646; unnamed child, born c.1648; unnamed child, born c.1650.
	www.pilgrimhall.org /hopkinssnowrecords.htm (3811 words)

	Nicholas Cooke
		COOKE, Nicholas, governor of Rhode Island, born in Providence, 3 February, 1717 ; died 14 September, 1782.
		In December, 1774, he was one of the committee of inspection of the town of Providence, a body invested with the general powers of a committee of safety.
		Cooke was a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal church till about 1875, when he became a Roman Catholic.
	www.famousamericans.net /nicholascooke (355 words)

	First Generation
		Nicholas died in Bellingham, MA on 1 Dec 1730, he was 71.
		Nicholas died in Bellingham, MA on 26 Apr 1779, he was 91.
		Nicholas died in Richmond, NH on 15 Sep 1791, he was 59.
	ourfamily.users2.50megs.com /cook.htm (13205 words)

	Anglican Communion News Service - 864 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cooke, who had resigned earlier as treasurer at the request of the Presiding Bishop.
		Cooke to the Church of substantially all of their liquid assets valued at approximately $100,000 and delivery to the Church of tangible personal property of the Church of which Mrs.
		The Church is pursuing "additional lines of potential recovery" that do not involve the Cookes, according to Bishop Browning, and he said that he would report on the results to the bishops at their fall meeting.
	www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/acnsarchive/acns0800/acns864.html (288 words)

	reagenealogy - pafg266 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Nicholas Cooke [Parents] was born on 9 Feb 1659/1660.
		Joanna Rockwood.Joanna married Nicholas Cooke on 4 Nov 1684 in Mendon, Massachusetts.
		Experience Cooke [Parents] was born on 9 Nov 1662.
	members.cox.net /garyrea/pafg266.htm (204 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Francis Bacon
		Furthermore, he was astute (if not successful) in comprehending the political importance of a nascent scientific methodology, and the need for its development as a working institution within the framework of an English monarchy increasingly intertwined with the contributions, needs, and oscillations of mercantile capitalism.
		Nicholas Bacon, a well-respected jurist, served Queen Elizabeth alongside his brother-in-law, Sir William Cecil, Elizabeth’s Lord Treasurer and principal minister.
		While Sir Nicholas Bacon was an architect and defender of Elizabeth’s moderate Anglicanism, Lady Bacon directed her sons, with little success, towards a rabid Calvinism
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=209 (646 words)

	PRIEST RESIGNS AFTER WIFE ADMITS TAKING $2.2 MILLION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Cooke earlier resigned his post as rector of a prestigious church in McLean, after revelations about his wife's theft while she was a top church official.
		It is not clear whether Cooke knew his wife was taking church money for such things as a vacation home and private school tuition for their children.
		Nicholas Cooke was rector of a Montclair, N.J., church while his wife worked in the Episcopal headquarters.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950617/06170365.htm (299 words)

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		Nicholas Cooke (1717-1782) spent his early life as a sea captain, and later operated a distillery and a ropemaking business.
		On the other hand, many early Cooke letters donated before 1890 were not placed here; they were interfiled in the miscellaneous Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts collection.
		By 1982, the Cooke Papers had been dismounted, and some items not directly relating to Cooke were moved to other collections.
	www.rihs.org /mssinv/Mss365.htm (685 words)

	Marlowe Society Book Reviews: Winter 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Judith Cook's The Slicing Edge of Death traces Marlowe's life from the fight in Hog Lane that ended with Tom Watson's killing of William Bradley to Marlowe's death at Deptford.
		Her Marlowe is not without kindness, of a sort: at one point Marlowe bribes the executioner to allow him to tug on a friend's legs so that he will die a quick and relatively painless death when he is hanged.
		Nicholas is a fictional character who, having run away from a brutal master to whom he had been apprenticed in Canterbury, grows up in the theatrical world of Elizabethan London before undertaking a series of other adventures and careers.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~pwhite/marlowe/msar95_2.htm (4095 words)

	Nicholas BACON (Sir Lord Keeper of the Great Seal)
		of Sir Anthony Cooke, by whom he had the famous Bacon brothers, Anthony and Francis, and two daughters.
		In 1538 Cranmer recommended Bacon to Cromwell, who chose Bacon, Robert Carey and Thomas Denton to advise on the establishment of a new inn of court for the training of ‘King's students of the law’ for the public service.
		His second wife, Anne Cooke, was his equal in variety of interests and accomplishments.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/NicholasBacon.htm (656 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Nicholas Nickleby (Wordsworth Classics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Punishing wickedness, befriending the helpless, strutting the stage, and falling in love, Nicholas shares some of his creator's energy and earnestness as he faces the pressing issues of early Victorian society.
		Nicholas seemed whiter than white, his sister hardly drawn at all and Mrs Nickleby was in my opinion an unfunny, misogynistic creation.
		For one thing, the narrator has done a wonderful job in piecing the story together, which is very important for any one whose native tongue is not English to keep up with the stories.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1853262641 (1000 words)

	Cleburne Times-Review, Cleburne, TX - Giddens’ wife gains custody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The deceased infant, Nicholas Rhea Hoffert, was one of the twin boys the Giddens family was adopting.
		Cooke accepted a motion to grant the entering of a foreign judgment from Michigan during a Feb. 24 adversarial hearing to determine the daughter’s fate.
		Under Cooke’s order, Nicholas’ remains were returned to Michigan for burial, and Gary returned to be placed in a foster home or adopted.
	www.cleburnetimesreview.com /local/local_story_108161803.html (735 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Cooke
		Cooke, A. — of Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va. Republican.
		Cooke, Henry D. — of District of Columbia.
		Cooke, Woodrow — of Oceana, Wyoming County, W.Va. Democrat.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/cooke.html (855 words)

	CVCO - Overbooked: Shakespearean Stars
		Born in the cathedral town of Canterbury at the end of the 16th-century, Nicholas Cooke makes his way to London where he meets Christopher Marlowe and eventually joins a company of actors, among whom is one Will Shagspere of Stratford.
		It is 1617, and Nicholas, now in his mid-thirties, is living in a small parish within the walled city of London; the annulment of his marriage and loss of his children a few years before have left him alone.
		Nicholas is both a dedicated priest and a serious researcher, determined to build a successful magnifying instrument.
	www.overbooked.org /booklists/subjects/authors/shakespeare.html (2583 words)

	Adoniram Judson Ramsdell Family Tree: Eleventh Generation
		COOKE was born in North Repps, Norfolk, England 1550.
		Nicholas was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 10 May 1941.
		Nicholas and Winifred WEBSTER were sealed 26 January 1950 ARIZO.
	www5.pair.com /vtandrew/jacqui/i0000324.htm (172 words)

	ISAF - 470 World Championship & Olympic Qualification
		Simon Cooke and Peter Nicholas (NZL) broke through the fleet to improve their overnight Bronze Medal Position to secure Gold with a fourth place finish today.
		It’s 10 hours time difference between Italy and New Zealand but the Cooke household was woken to the news that Simon Cooke and Peter Nicholas had broken through to win the 2002 International 470 Class Men’s World Championships early this afternoon here in Cagliari, Sardinia and qualified New Zealand for the 2004 Olympic Regatta.
		Cook and Nicholas as well as Bekatorou and Tsoulfa will receive Gold from International 470 Class President Heinz Staudt at 16.30hrs local time and 02.30 Auckland time.
	www.sailing.org /?id=jefF,A~7&MenuID=&Tkn=9202043 (595 words)

	COOKE
		Joseph COOKE, Edward COOKE and Philippa H. census - #1/31 Newtown, St Keverne, Con, Eng.
		Nicholas CURNOW (30), Elizabeth CURNOW (25), Nicholas CURNOW (7), Samuel CURNOW (5), Elizabeth CURNOW (4), Anna CURNOW (2)
		The Albert COOK (nephew) may be the baseborn son of cousin Jenny (1820)
	members.iinet.net.au /~kjstew/COOKE2.htm (1824 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| Cabbie admits blackmailer murder
		Mr Cooke said that when Mrs Nazir had been 12 she used to walk to school every day with the defendant, who was then 13 and a friend of hers.
		Mr Cooke said: "Mrs Nazir told Arshad she would not pay her taxi fare.
		Mr Cooke added: "The depressing background to the case is that Mrs Nazir was a heroin addict.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/4672785.stm (535 words)

	Paul Allen
		He was admitted as a lawyer in Rhode Island in 1795, and in 1798 was seen to be a Clerk of the RI Superior Court through 1801.
		Note that only this Mary (Cooke) Allen of 1748-1827 is buried in the same cemetery as Paul Allen.
		LDS search gives us that a Polly Cooke was the mother of Paul Allen born in 1775 and was married on 22 May 1774.
	gaspee.org /PaulAllen.html (1595 words)

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	CCLEC Publications -- A Catalog of Concerns: The Episcopal Church in the U. S. under Edmond Lee Browning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Browning sanctioned the continuance of Cooke's "autocratic," "tyrannical," "domineering," "defensive," "controlling," "manipulative," "uncollegial," "ruthless," "cavalier," "abusive," and "ineffectual management style" by repeatedly shielding her work from staff and outside scrutiny...
		Nicholas T. (Ellen) Cooke, III, dated December 7, 1993; Budget of The Episcopal Church: 1995; Letter to the Executive Council and the Council of Advice from the Standing Committee, South Carolina, dated June 6, 1995; Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society [PECUSA] letter by Browning in June 25, 1995; and "From the P.B.," Summer 1995.
		Nicholas T. (Ellen) Cooke, III, dated December 7, 1993; Letter by D. Barry Menuez, dated January 28, 1994; and Summary of Grants of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief for the years 1985 to 1994.
	www.episcopalian.org /CCLEC/catalog-concerns-p1.htm (6103 words)

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