Australi, . . . . ac etiam quoddam aliud Mesuagium sive Domum in Reading prædicta, modo in Tnura & Occupatione prædicti Leonadri vocata A Schole-house, in quo Pueri modo erudiuntur & docentur in Arte & Scientia prædictis." It is also provided that Cox during his lifetime may hold the grant by deputy. In addition he is to receive "quandam Annuitatem, sive Annualem Redditum Decem Librarum . . . de Exitibus, Proficuis, Firmis & Reventionibus Manerii nostri de Cholsey in dicto Comitatu nostro Berks." The manor of Cholsey, from which Cox was to receive his annual stipend of then pounds, belongs to the lately dissolved monastery of Reading.
Later Years Of Cox's later years we know very little. account of Cox, mentions vaguely only one date. "Claruit," he writes, "anno Domini 1540."[1] Tanner,[2] giving Bale as his authority for the first date, says: "Claruit grandævus A. MDXL . . . . MDXLIX. Vid. Præfat. Paraphr. ad Titum." Tanner thinks that perhaps Cox was master of the grammar-school founded at Coventry by his friend John Hales, to whom he dedicates the translation of the Paraphrase just referred to. Colvile[3] and Cooper[4] both positively assert that he became master there in 1572. Cooper adds that "if he held that appointment till his death, he must have died in 1599, when John Tovey succeeded to the mastership." At this last date Cox would have been probably over a hundred, and on his appointment at
- ↑ Bale, Scriptorum Illustrium maioris Brytanniæ Catalogus, Basle, 1557, p. 713 (Centuria nona, no. xxxi). The whole of Bale's account of Cox, as that of a contemporary, is interesting, and, as it is short, may be quoted here: "Leonardus Coxus, ab ipsa pueritia, liberalibus disciplinis bene institutus rhetor, poeta, ac theologus, piusque divini verbi demum concionator, transtulit è Graeco in Latinum venerabilis antiquitatis scriptorem, Marcum Eremitam de lege el spiritu, lib. I. Translulit in patrium sermonem Paraphrasim Erasmi in Paulum ad Titum, lib. I. Incip. Postquam regia majestas per Scripsit contra eos qui ab operibus justiticant. lib. I. Scripsit et scholia in G. Lilium, de Octo partium constructione, lib. I; ac diversi generis carmina et epistolas, lib. I. Claruit anno Domini 1540."
- ↑ Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica (Lond. 1748), p. 205. I regret that I have been unable to verify the reference to the Preface to the Paraphrase of the Epistle to Titus.
- ↑ Colvile, Worthies of Warwickshire, p. 883.
- ↑ Cooper, Athenæ Cantab.; also in Dict. Natl. Biog.
