COOK’S _court_, 1. Camomile street.† 2. Searle’s street.†
COOPERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by Henry VII. in the year 1501; and in the succeeding reign impowered to search and gauge all beer, ale, and soap vessels within the city of London, and two miles round its suburbs, for which they were allowed a farthing for each cask. They are governed by a Master, three Wardens, and twenty Assistants, and have a livery of 244 of their members, whose fine of admission is 15_l._ Their hall is in Basinghall street. _Maitland._
COOPER’S _alley_, 1. Wapping dock.† 2. Whitechapel. 3. Whitecross street, Cripplegate.†
COOPER’S _court_, 1. East Smithfield.† 2. Portpool lane.†
COOPER’S _yard_, 1. Lower Shadwell.† 2. Green Bank.† 3. Wapping.† 4. Petticoat lane.†
_English_ COPPER OFFICE, in Bush lane, Canon street, belongs to a company incorporated by letters patent of the third of William and Mary in 1691, by the name of _The Governor and Company of Copper Miners in England_; which was confirmed by Queen Anne in the year 1710; and by subsequent grants their power of working of mines was extended to all parts of Ireland and New England.
This corporation consists of a Governor, Deputy Governor, and eighteen Assistants. _Maitland._
COPPICE _row_, or CODPIECE _row_, Petty France, Westminster.
COPT HALL, the seat of John Conyers, Esq; is situated in Essex, between Epping and the forest, and being built on an eminence above Waltham Abbey, is seen at a great distance.
COPTHALL _court_, a very handsome well-built court in Throgmorton street.
COPTICK’S _court_, Poppin’s alley, Fleet street.†
CORAL _court_, Near Southampton street, in the Strand.
CORBET’S _court_, 1. Brown’s lane, Spitalfields.† 2. Gracechurch street.†
CORDWAINERS, or SHOEMAKERS. This company was incorporated by letters patent granted by King Henry IV. in the year 1410, by the name of _Cordwainers and Coblers_, the latter of which names was then far from being a despicable term, as it signified not only a shoemaker, but a dealer in shoes; and it does not appear that the word shoemaker was then in use.
Mr. Stow observes, that King Richard II. marrying the daughter of Wenceslaus King of Bohemia, the English by her example wore long peaked shoes tied to their knees with silk laces, or silver chains gilt. This preposterous fashion occasioned the passing of an act of parliament, in the reign of Edward IV. in which it was enacted, that no cordwainer or cobler within the city of London, or three miles of it, should make any shoes, galoshes or huseans, that is, boots or buskins, with any pyke or poleyn, exceeding the length of two inches, to be adjudged by the Wardens or Governors of the same mystery in London: nor should they presume to sell, or put upon the legs or feet of any person, any shoes, boots or buskins on Sundays, or on the feasts of the nativity and ascension of our Lord, or on _Corpus Christi_ day, on the penalty of paying twenty shillings for each offence.