Sandbach, Cheshire.
_Pronunciation of Coke_ (Vol. iv., p. 244.).--In confirmation of the
opinion that his name was pronounced _Cook_, I beg to send you an
extract from the _Life of Sir Edward Coke_, by C. W. Johnson, 1845, vol.
i., p. 336.:--
"When Coke was sent to the Tower they punned against him in
English. An unpublished letter of the day has this curious
anecdote. The room in which he lodged in the Tower had formerly
been a kitchen; on his entrance the Lord Chief Justice read upon
the door, 'This room wants a _Cook_.'"