John Cook. Engraving, 16--.

Lawyer and public commentator. "In February 1648 his Unum necessarium, or, the poore mans case advocated numerous measures to relieve social distress, including diversion of grain from beer to bread by suppressing alehouses, and the provision of subsidized loans and medical services to the poor (the latter an issue arising from the College of Physicians' prosecution of the empiric Dr William Trigg, who had retained Cook as counsel) ... In January 1649 ... he took on the invidious task of prosecuting Charles I. The king's refusal to plead largely confined Cook's public role as solicitor-general for the Commonwealth to reading the indictment which he had drafted" (Oxford dictionary of national biography). Executed in 1660 for regicide

In the print he holds a book engraved with the lettering "Doctrina libertinorum et quackerorium [sic] de regno millenario. Pietas et paupertas simulata". Presumably that is the reason for the statement in the German legend to this print calling him "Leader of the Quakers and freethinkers"

[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1600 and 1699]

1 print : engraving ; image and text 19 x 14.8 cm

Iohann Coock. Patron der Quacker und Freiy-Geister, König Carls des Ersten in Engelland Verräther und Anklager.

Wellcome Collection 2010603i