Ilo SOME NOTES ON THE COKAYNE FAMILY. 
some interest to members of this Society. The preface and 
introduction are more interesting, perhaps. than the text of the 
book is valuable. 
The altar tomb on the left hand on entering the chapel is 
that of Francis Cokayne (ob. 1538) and his wife, Dorothy, 
daughter and heir of Thomas Marrowe. That in the corner, 
records Sir Thomas Cokayne, Knt. (ob. 1537), and his wife 
Barbara, daughter of John FitzHerbert. 
The alabaster tomb, with male and female effigies, is that of 
Sir John Cokayne, Knt. (ob. 1447), and his wife. His jst 
wife was Jane, daughter of Sir John Dabridgecourt, Knt., of 
Stratfieldsaye: his second wife, Isabel, daughter of Sir Hugh 
Shirley, Knt., is gracefully pourtrayed in effigy on a fine altar 
tomb in Polesworth church, co. Warwick, where she was buried. 
Superincumbent on the next and oldest tomb are the effigies of 
the last-named Sir John Cokayne’s father (Edmond, slain at 
the battle of Shrewsbury in 1404), and grandfather (Sir John 
Cokayne, Knt., ob. 1372). 
The plain alabaster tomb, with incised slab, adjacent, is 
that of John Cokayne (ob. 1505), and his wife Agnes, daughter of 
Sir Richard Vernon, of Haddon, Knt. 
The “ Treatise of Hunting,” above referred to, is a small 4to. 
book with Title (1p.), Dedication (2pp.), Preface (zpp.), and 
Text (24pp.) without pagination, interspersed with 7 woodcuts 
of animals—hounds, foxes, otters, stags. 
Lowndes refers to the book thus :—‘“ Black letter, inscribed 
to the Earle of Shrewsburie. Four sheets, with woodcuts, 
principally borrowed from Turberville’s Treatise. A copy is in 
the British Museum. Inglis 366, £17 10s. Puttick 1855 
(one leaf M.S. £10 5s.) 
