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COOPER (or COUPER), See also:THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)  , See also:English See also:bishop and writer, was See also:born in See also:Oxford, where he was educated at Magdalen See also:College . He became See also:master of Magdalen College school, and afterwards practised as a physician in Oxford . His See also:literary career began in 1548, when he compiled, or rather edited, a Latin See also:dictionary Bibliotheca Eliotae, and in 1549 he published a continuation of See also:Thomas Lanquet's See also:Chronicle of the See also:World . This See also:work, known as See also:Cooper's Chronicle, covers the See also:period from A.D . 17 to the See also:time of See also:writing, and was reprinted in 1560 and 1565 . In 1565 appeared the first edition of his greatest work, See also:Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Britannicae, and this was followed by three other See also:editions . See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth was greatly pleased with the Thesaurus, generally known as Coo per's Dictionary; and its author, who had been ordained about 1559, was made See also:dean of See also:Christ See also:Church, Oxford, in 1567 . Two years later he became dean of See also:Gloucester, in 1571 bishop of See also:Lincoln and in 1584 bishop of See also:Winchester . Cooper was a stout controversialist; he defended the practice and See also:precept of the Church of See also:England against the See also:Roman Catholics on the one See also:hand and against the See also:Martin Marprelate writings and the Puritans on the other . He took some See also:part, the exact extent of which is disputed, in the persecution of religious recusants in his See also:diocese, and died at Winchester on the 29th of See also:April 1594 . Cooper's Admonition against Martin Marprelate was reprinted in 1847, and his See also:Answer in See also:Defence of the Truth against the See also:Apology of Private See also:Mass in 185o .

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