["Bishop Myles Coverdale is supposed to have been born in the year
of our Lord 1488, in the district of Coverdale, in the parish of
Coverham, near Middleham, in the North Riding of Yorkshire; and it
is the opinion of the learned historian of Richmondshire, that it
is an assumed, and not a family name." These are the words of the
Rev. Geo. Pearson, B.D., the very competent editor of the works of
Bishop Coverdale, published by the Parker Society. His reference is
to Whitaker's _Hist. of Richmondshire_, vol. i. p. 17.]
_Caraccioli--Author of Life of Lord Clive._
In reply to K.'s query in No. 7., I have to inform him that "Charles
Caraccioli, Gent." called himself "the Master of the Grammar School at
Arundel," and in 1766 published a very indifferent _History of the
Antiquities of Arundel_; and deprecating censure, he says in his
preface, "as he (the author) was educated and till within these few
years has lived abroad, totally unconversant with the English tongue, he
flatters himself that the inaccuracies so frequently interspersed
through the whole, will be observed with some grains of allowance." His
_Life of Lord Clive_ was a bookseller's compilation.