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Some Potes on the Cokavune fatty. 
By ANDREAS E. COKAYNE. 
HIN accurate account of the monuments in the Cokayne 
Chapel in Ashburne Church appears in the second 
volume of Mr. J. Charles Cox’s ‘Derbyshire Churches,” 
but it may be of interest briefly here to recount the names of 
those persons to whom these monuments were erected, some 
of them retaining no inscriptions, and some few alterations and 
restorations having been made since the close of 1876. 
The Cokayne family resided in Ashburne for a period of 
more than 500 years, certainly from the middle of the 12th 
century down to late in the 17th, when Sir Aston sold his 
Ashburne property (in 1671). The eldest representative in 
seven successive generations, from 1372 to 1592, is monument- 
ally commemorated in an unbroken line, if we include also the 
pretty little altar tomb now in the Chancel of Youlgreave 
Church, with effigy of Thomas Cokayne, who died in his 
father’s life-time. He married Agnes, daughter of Robert 
Barlow, and died in 1488. 
To take the Cokayne monuments according to their position :— 
The large mural one outside the parclose is to Sir Thomas 
Cokayne, who was knighted at the taking of Edinburgh in 1544. 
He married Dorothy (ob. 1595), daughter of Sir Humphrey 
Ferrers, and died 15th Nov., 1592. His “Treatise of Hunt- 
ing,” written at the close of 1591, now an almost uniaue book, 
I have had accurately transcribed from the original volume in 
the British Museum, and it is reprinted hereafter, in the 
belief that it may possibly be—as a curious and rare work—of 
