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|name = Cox Macro |image = File:Portrait of the Rev Dr Cox Macro by Frans Van Mieris.jpg |image_size = Rev. Dr. Cox Macro |alt = |caption = |birth_name = |birth_date = 1683 |birth_place = Bury St Edmunds, England |death_date = 2 February 1767 (aged 84) |death_place = Little Haugh Hall, Norton, Suffolk |death_cause = |resting_place = |residence = |nationality = |citizenship = |education = |occupation = |employer = |known_for = Macro Manuscript Chaplain to George II |home_town = |salary = |height = |weight = |spouse = Mary Godfrey |partner = |children = Edward Macro Mary Macro | parents = Thomas Macro Susan Cox |website = |signature = |signature_alt = |networth = |relations = |box_width = }} Cox Macro (1683–1767) was an English antiquarian, notable for owning and compiling the Macro Manuscript, which contains what are regarded as the earliest complete examples of English morality plays. Early lifeCox Macro was born in 1683, in the town of Bury St Edmunds. His father, Thomas Macro, a grocer and alderman, and five rimes chief magistrate of the town, lived and made his fortune at the Ancient Meat Market before purchasing the estate of Little Haugh, in neighbouring Norton, Suffolk. He married Susan Cox, the daughter of Reverend John Cox of Risby, Suffolk and the great granddaughter of Richard Cox.[1] Cox was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, before enrolling at Jesus College, Cambridge. He later transferred to Christ's College, Cambridge on 9 January 1701. On 3 September 1703 he entered Leiden University, where he studied under Herman Boerhaave.[2] He graduated LL.B at Cambridge in 1710, and D.D in 1717. At the time of his death, he was the Senior Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge. He married Mary Godfrey, daughter of Edward Godfrey Esq. of King Street, Golden Square, Westminster, Under Treasurer to George III when he was Prince of Wales. The two had two children: Edward Macro, whose early death was surrounded by controversy, and Mary Macro. Mary was secretly engaged to William Staniforth of Attercliffe, and remained unmarried to him until her father died.[3] CareerCox was Chaplain to George I of Great Britain, but it seems that when he acquired his father's fortune, he left this role. Richard Hurd was curate of a nearby parish in 1743 and described Macro as 'a very learned and amiable man, the most complete scholar and gentleman united that almost ever I saw'. He also noted that it was Macro who taught him Italian. Cox's home at Little Haugh was said to contain a vast collection of antique paintings and sculptures. He was fond of the Flemish painter Peter Tillemans, and was known to commission him to paint landscapes and portraits for the home. Tillemans died at Little Haugh, having been working the day before on the portrait of a favorite horse, which remained at Norton in its unfinished state as a memorial of the circumstance. This picture was, in 1860, in the possession of Mrs Patteson of Cringleford, Norfolk. See notice of Little Haugh Hall, Norton, by Samuel Tymms, read before a meeting of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, etc. at Little Haugh Hall.[4] Mr Wilson of Broomhead Hall, Macro's nephew, created a catalogue of his uncle's inventory in 1766. The works of art are first mentioned, including a bust of Tillemans by John Michael Rysbrack; these were later inherited by his descendant John Staniforth Patteson. He also noted that Macro had a vast historical autograph collection, including letters by Protestant Martyrs and one written by Oliver Cromwell addressed to his wife, dated 12 April 1651. The Yorkshire antiquarian Joseph Hunter gave the following account of Dr. Macro and his home: “Having inherited a considerable fortune from his family, who were opulent burgesses of the town of Bury St. Edmunds, he seems not to have taken upon himself in private professional study, and in gratifying his taste for curious literature and the arts of painting and sculpture, besides devoting himself to the improvement of his estate at Norton, to which he succeeded on the death of his father in 1737. Dr Macro's house at Norton, about six miles from Bury St Edmunds, was probably one of the best specimens of the time of the embellished residence of a country gentlemen of easy, if not affluent, fortune. He enlarged the house to adapt it to his purposes, laid out around it extensive pleasure grounds, and collected within numerous paintings (some of them very choice) and a few sculptures. Dr Macro's coins and medals were choice. He had also some of the rarer productions of the early foreign and English presses; and a collection, perhaps one of the best in private hands, of MS. Remains in volumes. Autograph letters, and Charters. [The latter seem to have been collected from various quarters, as opportunity was presented to him.] Several of his MS volumes had belonged to SPELMAN, others had formed a part of the library of the Monks at Bury.[5] A portion of the Charters was presented, soon after Dr Macro's death in 1767, by his daughter to a nephew of his, who strongly resembled him in his tastes and pursuits. This was Mr Wilson of Broomhead, a Yorkshire gentleman, who was no mean antiquary, and had a most extraordinary passion for amassing and transcribing Charter evidence. This gentleman died in 1783 and his collection of written evidence remained as he had left it at the old Hall in which he had resided, in one of the wildest parts of the country, till 1806 (23 years after his death) when it was liberally thrown open to my [Mr. Hunter's] inspection, and from that time I have found what it contained; a source of original information, extremely useful to me in my genealogical and topographical studies.”[6][7] Many of Dr Macro's manuscripts were printed and published by the Cambridge Camden Society under the title Ecclesiastical Documents. Some of the most notable include a brief history of the Bishoprick of Somerset from its foundation in the year 1174, and charters from the library of the Rev. Cox Macro, D.D.[8] Macro died at his home in Little Haugh on 2 February 1767 at the age of 84. References1. ^Bury and West Suffolk Archæol. Instit. ii. 210, 281-7, iii. 375-85; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. ix. 359-65; Nichols's Ulustr. of Lit. vi. 524; Kilvert's Hurd, pp. 10-20, 245; Page's Supplement to Suffolk Traveller, pp. 799-800; Hunter's Hallamshire, ed. Gatty, p. 423; information from the Rev. Dr. Peile of Christ's College, Cambridge. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Macro, Cox}}2. ^Peacock, Index of Leyden Students, p. 64 3. ^Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 35 (William Prideaux Courtney) 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=85349|title= Tillemans, Peter (Flemish painter and draftsman, 1684-1734, active in Great Britain) , The Artist’s Studio - NIRP - VADS: the online resource for visual arts|website=vads.ac.uk|accessdate=2018-11-06}} 5. ^The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, with Gorleston and Southtown, Volume 1 (Charles John Palmer, 1972) 6. ^Camden Society 7. ^Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (John Nicholas, 1815) 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2008114568/|website=worldcat.org|title=Ecclesiastical documents: viz. I.A brief history of the bishoprick of Somerset from its foundation to the year 1174. II. 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