de Mecum_, ii. 519; his MSS. seized on his death, ib.; yet to be
recovered, ib., note; his character, 520; his matrimonial alliances,
ib.; his disgrace, 521; disputes between him and his wife, Lady
Hatton, concerning the marriage of his daughter, 523; curious letter
of advice to Lady Hatton, for her defence before the Council, 524;
his daughter married to Lord Villiers, and Coke reinstated, 529; his
daughter's bad conduct, ib.; his death, 530; his vituperative style,
ib.; his conduct to Rawleigh, 531; his abjectness in disgrace, 532;
pricked as sheriff, to exclude him from Parliament, iii. 446; eludes
the appointment by excepting to the oath, 448.

COKE, Mr. Clement, a violent opposition leader in the second
Parliament of Charles I., iii. 498, 499.

COLERIDGE, method pursued by him in his remarkable political
predictions, iii. 268.

COLLECTIONS of books, see LIBRARIES; of engravings, see ENGRAVINGS.

COLLECTOR of books, i. 1-8; defence of himself, as one of the body,
by Ancillon, 10; Aristotle first saluted as a, 53.

COLLECTORS, their propensity to plunder, iii. 316-319.

COLLINS, Anthony, a great lover of books, iii. 16; a free-thinker,
ib.; the friend of Locke, 18; fate of his MSS., 19-23.

COMEDIES, extemporal, ii. 130; opinion of northern critics on, 131;
the amusement of Italy, ib.; practised by the Romans, ib.; Salvator
Rosa's prologue to one, 133; opinions and descriptions of, by
Riccoboni and Gherardi, 134, 135; anecdote of the excellence of,
137; when first introduced in England, 138.

COMFITS universally used under Henry III. of France, i. 221.

COMINES, notice of, i. 263.

COMPOSITION, various modes of literary, ii. 85; correction in,
necessary, ib.; but by some authors impossible, ib.; illustrative
anecdotes, 86; use of models in, 88; various modes of, used by
celebrated authors, 90-92; passion for, exhibited by some authors,
533-546.

CONDE, great Prince of, expert in physiognomy, i. 150.

CONFRERES de la Passion, i. 353.

CONFUSION of words by writers, iii. 65; by the Nominalists and
Realists, 66; in modern philosophy, ib.; between the Antinomians and
their opposers, and the Jansenists and Jesuits, 68; between Abelard
and St. Bernard, ib; other instances, 69; in jurisprudence and
politics, 70; historical instances, 71-73; arising from a change of
meaning in the c