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Cooke, Jacob (1748)

Cooke, Jacob, ‘The Three Chairs’, Little Tower Hill, London, u (d. 1748). Death of ‘Mr Cooke, an eminent Upholsterer in the Minories, near Tower-Hill’ reported in General Advertiser, 21 November 1748. His widow, ‘Mrs Mary Cooke at the Three Chairs on Little Tower Hill … Mr Jacob C. being deceased’, advertised in the same paper on 31 January 1749, stating: ‘a good Upholsterer's shop, that has been so for nearly sixty years’ was to be let and stock to be sold. [Heal]

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.