[2] The three most talked of books by Elizabeth Cobbold were:—The Mince Pye, an Heroic Epistle, humbly addressed to the Sovereign Dainty of a British Feast, by Caroline Petty Pasty, 1800. Cliff Valentines, 1813. An Ode to the Victory of Waterloo, 1815. The suggestion is made in the Dictionary of National Biography that she was descended on the mother’s side from Edmund Waller the poet, but this is exceedingly improbable.
[3] Dr. Spencer Cobbold, of Batheston, Somerset, a grandson of Richard Cobbold, and the son of T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D. (1828-1886), the distinguished helminthologist, who was the youngest F.R.S. of his day. He had made some original investigations concerning Entozoa, and was the author of many books on “Parasites" and kindred subjects.
[4] At the Tower Church. He lived at St. Margaret’s Green.
[5] Public Men of Ipswich and East Suffolk, by Richard Gowing. Ipswich: W. J. Scopes, 1875.
[6] The following books by Richard Cobbold are in the British Museum Library:—
| Valentine Verses, or Lines of Truth, Love, and Virtue | 1827 |
| A Sermon on Matthew xiv | 1829 |
| The Spirit of the Litany of the Church of England. A Poem | 1833 |
| The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl. 2 vols. | 1845 |
| Mary Anne Wellington. A Soldier’s Daughter, Wife and Widow. 3 vols. | 1846 |
| Zenon the Martyr. 3 vols. | 1847 |
| The Young Man’s Home, or The Penitent’s Return | 1848 |
| The Character of Woman. A Lecture | 1848 |
| A Voice from the Mount | 1848 |
| A Sermon on Genesis i. 3 | 1849 |
| Conversations between J. Rye and Mr. Parr | 1848 |
| The Comforter, or Short Addresses from the Book of Job | 1850 |
| A Father’s Legacy. The Proverbs of Solomon in Prose and Verse | 1850 |
| Freston Tower, or The Early Days of Cardinal Wolsey. 3 vols. | 1850 |
| Courtland: a Novel. By the Daughter of Mary Anne Wellington. 3 vols. | 1852 |
| The Union Child’s Belief | 1855 |
| J. H. Steggall. A Real History of a Suffolk Man | 1857 |
| Canticles of Life | 1858 |
[7] The Secretary of the Borough of Ipswich Museum and Free Library.
[8] The punishment of death for horse-stealing was abolished in 1832, but in 1833 a little boy of nine who pushed a stick through a cracked window and pulled out some painters’ colours worth twopence was sentenced to death. Since 1838 no person has been hanged in England for any offence other than murder. See Spencer Walpole’s History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815.
[9] The writer of these pages, one of the sons of that excellent woman, was born on the 9th of September following.
[10] All traces of Edward Catchpole having been lost, the author is obliged to Henry T. Bourne, Esq., of Alford, in Lincolnshire, for making known to him, since the publication of the work, the circumstances which are here briefly narrated.