[Footnote 1: In the _Report from the Select Committee_ (of the House of
Commons) _on the Post Office_ in 1844, Sir F. Palgrave makes the following
note on the word _Cokinus_, which occurs in some documents supplied to the
Committee, and printed in their Appendix:
"The word _Cokinus_, in the Wardrobe Accounts of the latter half of the
thirteenth century, is used to signify a 'messenger;' but in what the
Cokinus differed from the Nuncius and the Garcio--the other terms employed
in their accounts to signify the bearers of letters or messages--does not
appear."]
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