anti-Corn Law propagandist William Cooke Taylor (1800–1849) claimed descent from Cook. References Notes Sources External links Biography of Cook British Civil Wars website Audio from a talk on John Cooke by Geoffrey Robertson for Bristol Radical History Group 1608 births 1660 deaths Executed regicides of Charles I Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Members of Gray's Inn People executed by Stuart England by hanging, drawing and quartering Executed people from Leicestershire People executed under the Stuarts for treason against England Lay members of the Westminster Assembly Solicitors General for England and Wales People from Burbage, Leicestershire English politicians convicted of crimes Chief Justices of Munster