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    Sir Aston Cockayne, 1st Baronet (1608–1684) Also spelt Aston Cockain was, in his day, a well-known Cavalier and a minor literary figure, now best remembered...
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    The Cockayne Family split their time between Pooley hall and their estate at Ashbourne Hall in Derbyshire. Sir Aston Cockayne, 1st Baronet Cockayne, lived...
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    The Baronetcy of Cockayne of Ashbourne was created in the Baronetage of England on 10 January 1642 for Aston Cockayne, Lord of Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire...
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    contemporary writers, ranging from John Ford to Lodowick Carlell to Sir Aston Cockayne, made attempts in the genre. Tragicomedy remained fairly popular up...
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    1683, written after the English Civil War by Charles Cotton, cousin to Aston Cockayne, Baronet of Ashbourne (1608–84): Two towns, that long that war had raged...
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  • teacher Aston Cockayne (1605–1684), well-known Cavalier and minor literary figure Manny Aston, Australian writer and teacher Constance Aston, seventeenth...
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    1350 in Great Britain. Aston Cockayne (1608–1684),Cavalier, writer Ben Cockayne (born 1983), English rugby player David Cockayne (1942–2010), British electron...
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    Formula 1 Stock Cars World Champion. In birth order: Sir Aston Cockayne (1608–1684), 1st Baronet Cockayne of Ashbourne Catherine Pegge (born c. 1635) was mistress...
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    Bradley and of Pooley hall in Polesworth, Warwickshire. Sir Aston Cockayne, First Baronet Cockayne of Ashbourne, was a cavalier, author and poet. He was friends...
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  • Excellent Princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle (closet dramas) Aston Cockayne – The Tragedy of Ovid published Pierre Corneille – Sertorius Sir William...
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  • Orbis Pictus (Visible World) William Chamberlayne – Love's Victory Aston Cockayne – Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince William Davenant – The Cruelty of the...
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  • authorship was specified during the 17th century by his friend Sir Aston Cockayne. It displays Fletcher's distinctive pattern of stylistic and textual...
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  • Lucy Clifford (1846–1929, England) Kitty Clive (1711–1785, England) Aston Cockayne (1608–1684, England) Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749, England)...
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  • (1797–1877), novelist and writer Richard Cobden (1804–1865), pamphleteer Aston Cockayne (1605–1684), poet and playwright Catherine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749)...
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    not stand up to critical examination. In the seventeenth century, Sir Aston Cockayne, a friend of Fletcher's, specified that there were many plays in the...
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  • (1865–1944, US, f/nf) Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (born 1951, Romania, f/nf) Aston Cockayne (1608–1684, England, d/p) Alison Cockburn (1712–1794, Scotland, p/nf)...
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  • been among the minority of actors who wrote one or more plays. Sir Aston Cockayne left a 10-line poem "To Mr. John Hunnieman" that extols his "Successful...
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    time Massinger apparently worked regularly with John Fletcher. Sir Aston Cockayne, Massinger's constant friend and patron, refers in explicit terms to...
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  • seems to have lived for some time in his native Derbyshire, where Sir Aston Cockayne, as a neighbour and fellow-poet, appears to have visited and been visited...
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    although the precise location is not known; there is a reference by Aston Cockayne to a common grave for Fletcher and Massinger (also buried in Southwark)...
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  • written c.1600) Richard Brome – The Queen's Exchange (published) Sir Aston Cockayne – The Obstinate Lady (published) Lodowick Carlell The Fool Would be...
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    first of 1649 held 27 poems, by Andrew Marvell, Robert Herrick, Sir Aston Cockayne, Charles Cotton and others, and the second of 1650 contained 36, including...
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  • Robert Herrick, Richard Brome, Jasper Mayne, Thomas Stanley, and Sir Aston Cockayne. The 1647 folio contains 35 works – 34 plays and 1 masque. The 1647...
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  • English verse, but the translation remained in manuscript. His friend Sir Aston Cockayne thought highly of it. Anthony Wood states that he was extravagant. He...
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  • George Chapman and James Shirley – The Tragedy of Chabot (published) Aston Cockayne – A Masque at Bretbie Pierre Corneille – L'Illusion comique, (published)...
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  • (from Duke's exit); Act III; Act IV, 1 and 3. Massinger's friend Sir Aston Cockayne borrowed heavily from A Very Woman for his own play The Obstinate Lady...
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  • or, A Voice from the Vault, published anonymously, mostly poetry Sir Aston Cockayne, Small Poems of Divers Sorts (see also Poems 1662) Henry Lawes, Ayres...
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  • (adaptation of Eastward Ho) A Duke and No Duke (adaptation of Sir Aston Cockayne's Trappolin Suppos'd a Prince) January 9 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch...
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    Broadlow Ash when the first Baronet purchased Ashbourne Hall from Sir Aston Cockayne in about 1671. Several other members of this family may also be mentioned...
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    ISBN 0520254260 G. Brunacci, Vita di Giovan Francesco Loredan, Venezia 1662. Sir Aston Cockayne translated in English Loredano's Dianea in 1654 (Dianea an excellent...
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