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COE—COLE.

political pamphlets, in which he was associated with Marmaduke Boat. His type, ornaments, and initials were old and worn, and his press-work bad. He died between April 12th and July 30th, 1644, and was succeeded by his son Andrew and his widow Jane. The position of his printing office has not been found.

COE (ANDREW), the younger, printer in London, 1644-67. The son of Andrew Coe. After his father's death, in 1644, carried on the business in partnership with his mother, Jane Coe, q.v. They continued to print the Perfect Occurrences.

COE (JANE), printer in London, 1644-47. Widow of Andrew Coe, senr. Carried on the business after his death with her son, Andrew Coe, junr.

COKE, see Cooke (William).

COLE (PETER), bookseller and printer in London, (1) Glove in Cornehill neere the Royal Exchange, 1637-42; (2) Glove and Lyon in Cornhil neare the Royal Exchange, 1643; (3) Printing Press in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange, 1643-65; (4) Living in Leaden-Hall, and at the sign of the Printing Press, 1660-65 (1637-65). Took up his freedom January 11th, 1637/8, and was originally a bookseller, amongst his earliest publications being Captain John Underhill's Newes from America, 1638, 4o, printed for him by John Dawson, who did most of his printing at this time. Some time in 1643 Cole himself added printing to his bookselling business. It appears from the Records of the Stationers' Company that, as agent for the Company, he had seized a press and letters in Bell Alley, over against Finsbury, and he gave his word that they should not be used in a disorderly way, but in June of the same year an order was made by the Committee of Examinations "that the keys of the room where the printing presses and materials of Peter Cole now are shall be restored to him, he entering bond in 1000li not to remove the said presses or dispose of them without first acquainting this Committee and the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers and have their consent thereto. And that hereafter he do not presume to print with the said presses any book, pamphlet or paper not licensed according to the Ordinance of Parliament of the 14th of this present June." [Domestic State Papers, Charles I, vol. 498, 96.] A list of 30 books, chiefly theological, printed and sold by him in 1651, will be found in F. Glisson's Treatise of the Ricketts, at the end of the Preface. His