John Cosin

COSIN, John. b. Norwich, 30 November 1594 (ODNB, 1595); d. Westminster, London, 15 January 1672. He was educated at the Grammar School at Norwich and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA 1614, MA 1617). From 1617 to 1619 he served as secretary and librarian to John Overall, bishop of Lichfield, and in 1620 he became a junior fellow of Gonville and Caius College, but failed to secure a senior fellowship in 1624. In 1619 he was appointed chaplain to Richard Neile, the anti-Calvinist Bishop of Durham, and in 1626 he was made rector of the profitable living of Brancepeth, six miles outside Durham. In 1624 he had become a prebendary of Durham Cathedral, where he introduced new liturgical...