Storia do Mogor 46.2.2

46.2.2

This entry was communicated by Sir George Musgrave, Baronet, of Edenhall, Cumberland (a descendant of A. Cogan), to Mr. J. Livingstone Jay, treasurer of Greenwich Hospital, by him to Mr. W. Duncombe Pink, of Lowton, Newton-le-Willows, and by Mr. Pink to me. The year 1654 in the ' Complete Baronetage' of Mr. G. E. Cokayne,vol. iii.,p. 304, which rests on the same authorities, should be 1652. In any case, Andrew Cogan never returned to the East ; he was at Venice on February 7, 1653 (Calender of Clarendon State Papers, vol. ii., p. 176, No. 979, (3); and Hyde, writing to Nicholls on April 11, 1653 (ibid., vol. ii., p. 192, No. 1068) says : ' Sir A. Cogan is not an excellent ambassador.' Presumably, this is an allusion to his selection as Ambassador to India and the Farther East, and probably led to the substitution of Henry Bard, Viscount Bellomont.