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 provided fairly for his kinsfolk, several of whose names appear in the documents of the period. He died in disgrace at Laneham in Nottinghamshire on 22 Sept. 1304. He was buried at Southwell on 29 Sept. beneath a blue marble slab close to the pulpit. The effigy is now destroyed. 

CORCORAN, MICHAEL (1827–1863), brigadier-general of federal volunteers in the American civil war, was born at Carrowskill, co. Sligo, Ireland, 21 Sept. 1827. He emigrated to America in 1849, and obtained employment at first as a clerk in the New York city post office. He became colonel of the 69th New York militia, and on the call for troops in April 1861 took the field with his battalion, and distinguished himself at the first battle of Bull's Run, where he was wounded and made prisoner. He was confined successively at Richmond, Charleston, Columbia, Salisbury, N.C., and other places, and was one of the officers selected for execution in the event of the federal authorities having carried out their threat of hanging the captured crews of confederate vessels as pirates. Exchanged on 15 Aug. 1862, he was made a brigadier-general, and raised an Irish legion. He took part in the battles of Nausomond and Suffolk in North Carolina in 1863, and checked the advance of the confederates on Norfolk. He died, from the effects of a fall from his horse near Fairfax, Virginia, on 22 Dec. 1863. 

CORDELL, CHARLES (1720–1791), catholic divine, son of Charles Cordell, of the diocese of London, and his wife, Hannah Darell, of the ancient family of Darell of Scotney Castle, Sussex, and Calehill, Kent, was born on 5 Oct. 1720, and educated in a school at Fernyhalgh, Lancashire, and in the English college at Douay, where he was ordained priest. He became chaplain at Arundel Castle in 1748; was subsequently stationed at Roundhay, Yorkshire, and in the Isle of Man; and on 10 June 1765 took charge of the chapel in Newgate Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he continued till his death on 26 Jan. 1791 (Catholic Miscellany, vi. 387).

He published: 1. ‘The Divine Office for the Use of the Laity,’ 4 vols. 16mo [Sheffield], 1763; second edit. 2 vols. 8vo [Newcastle-on-Tyne], 1780; new edition, ‘with corrections and additions by the Rev. B. Rayment, Manchester, 1806 (Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. x. 330, 383). 2. ‘A Letter to the Author of a Book called “A Candid and Impartial Sketch of the Life and Government of Pope Clement XIV,”’ 1785. The work to which this ‘Letter’ relates was written by Father John Thorpe, an English ex-jesuit, and edited by Father Charles Plowden. It is a collection of scandalous stories about Ganganelli that were circulated at Rome by his enemies. Cordell deemed it to be his duty to defend the action of the pope in suppressing the Society of Jesus (, Bibl. Dict. of the English Catholics, i. 565, 567).

Cordell also translated several works from the French, including ‘The Life of Pope Clement XIV’ (Ganganelli), by Caraccioli (1776); ‘Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV’ (2 vols. 1777); ‘The Manners of the Christians’ by Fleury (1786), and ‘The Manners of the Israelites’ by Fleury (1786). 

CORDELL, WILLIAM (d. 1581), master of the rolls, son of John Cordell, esq., by Eva, daughter of Henry Webb of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, was born at Edmonton, Middlesex, and educated at Cambridge, though at what college is not known. He was admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn in 1538, and called to the bar in 1544. In 1545 he obtained the manor of Long Melford, Suffolk, and was M.P. for Dunheved. In the parliament which met 1 March 1552–3 he sat for Steyning, and he became solicitor-general to Queen Mary on 30 Sept. 1553. In that capacity he took part in the prosecution of Sir Thomas Wyatt for high treason. He served the office of Lent reader of Lincoln's Inn in 1553–4, and shortly afterwards became one of the governors of that society, a post which he held on many subsequent occasions. On 5 Nov. 1557 he was constituted master of the rolls, having previously received the honour of knighthood. Queen Mary appointed him one of her privy council, and granted him a license to have twelve retainers. He was returned for Suffolk to the parliament which assembled on 20 Jan. 1557–8, and was chosen speaker of the House of Commons. In 1558