Francis Coxe, a quack physician, who attained some celebrity in the sixteenth century, is best known by a curious volume of receipts entitled
De oleis, unguentis, emplastris, etc. conficiendis (), London, 1575,
8vo, which is missing. Coxe subsequently published what
Edward Heron-Allen calls "a grovelling and terror-stricken pamphlet", entitled
A Short Treatise declaring the Detestable Wickednesse of Magicall Sciences, as Necromancie, Coniurations of Spirits, Curiouse Astrologie, and such lyke (London, Alde, n.d.,
black letter,
12mo), written, as he says in the preface thereto, "for that I have myself been an offender in these most detestable sciences, against whome I have compilyd this worke". Coxe may also have written
Prognostication, n.d., an almanac, which survives in a single copy on the back of a ballad in the British Library. The dates of his birth and death are not known. == See also ==