COKE (COOK), John.

A John Cook held the office of bailiff of Penlyne, a manor near Lostwithiel which belonged to the duchy of Cornwall, in 1387-8 and 1391-3, but not in the years between. In 1382 one of the same name, along with his wife Sabina, had been engaged in a conveyance of land near Looe. Six years later a John Cook of Rosemodress in St. Buryan was dispossessed by the Crown of his share in a tin-mine in Lamorna after it had been alleged that a man had died buried by a fall of earth there.SC6/819/1, 3; Cornw. Feet of Fines (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. 1950), 729; CPR, 1385-9, p. 462. It is quite possible that we have to deal with three different men of the same name, and, certainly, which of them, if any, represented Truro in Parliament remains unclear.