Cooper, _Robert_, mistaken for _Thomas_ Cooper, 186 Cooper, Thomas, a copyist at the Board of Health, 186 Cooper, Thomas, and "Stamford Mercury," 178 a sceptic, his lectures as, 185: _footnote_, 186 as a lecturer on Christianity, 187 becomes a shoemaker, 169 birth and parentage, 165 childhood at Exeter, 165-167 early studies while a shoemaker, 169-175 editorship and authorship in 1848-49, 185 final conversion to Christianity, 185, 186 first poem, 170 his connection with the Methodists, 177, 178 his excessive studies, 175, 176 his first published poems, 177 in Stafford Jail, 182-3 lectures at City Hall, London, on Theism, 186 life in Leicester, 180-3 life in Lincoln, 177 life in London, 179-180 Cooper, Thomas, list of his writings, 181-7 marries Miss Jobson, 177 professes Christianity in Baptism by immersion, 185 schoolboy days, 168, 169 sets up a school, 176 the railway accident, 186 Trial at Stafford and in London, 182-3 Craggs, Secretary, 216 Crispin and Crispianus, 197-199 Crispin anecdotes, 198-216, 223, 228, 242 Crocker, Charles, 247, 248 Cromwell and Fox, 249-51 Cruickshank and O'Neill, 244-6 Curwen's "History of Booksellers," 37, 45, 83 D'Albrione, Signor, 178 Davies, Ann, Gifford's lines on, 68, 87 Dekker, Thomas, 228 Della Cruscan School, 75, 82 Deloney's "History of Gentle Craft," 199, 228 Dennis, friend of Lackington, 40 Devlin, James, 242 Dey of Tripoli and Lieutenant Shovel, 20-21 D'Israeli, Mr., and Thomas Cooper, 183 "Dramatists, Early English," edited by Gifford, 75, 82 Drew, Samuel, as a preacher, 122, 123 as editor and author, list of works, 139-141 apprenticeship days, 111-113 attempts at poetry, 118-119 begins to study, 114-115 birth and childhood, 110-111 competes for prize of £1500, 122 conversion, joins the Wesleyans, 114 Defence of the Methodists, 119 his generosity, 117 his method of writing books while a shoemaker, 121 his works on immortality of the soul, 120 honors conferred on, 123, 124 last days, 124 lives in Liverpool and London, 124 marriage, 118 narrow escape from drowning, 113 quits the shoemaker's stall, 122 starts in business on £5, his thrift, 116 the midnight visitor, 118 writes "Remarks on Paine's Age of Reason," 118 Duncombe, T. S., M.P., and Thomas Cooper, 183 Elliott, Ebenezer, and John Younger, 246 Eyre, Sir Simon, Lord Mayor of London, 228 Fletcher, vicar of Madely and Bradburn, 62 Foster, John, 242 Fox, George, 249 Fullarton's "Lives of Eminent Englishmen," 84 Fuller, Rev. Andrew, the friend of Carey, 138, 141 Gainsborough the painter, 93