We need not rove so far abroad, we have familiar examples at home: Hackett that said he was Christ; Coppinger and Arthington his disciples; Burchet and Hovatus, burned at Norwich.

Although you are pleased to tell me that part of the papers taken from Colonel Coppinger are ready to be delivered, which the American commissioners, after having examined them, have adjudged to be returne

For example, in a Session of the Poets, under the fictitious name of Matthew Coppinger, Dryden is thus irreverently introduced: "A reverend grisly elder first appeared, With solemn pace through the divided herd; Apollo, laughing at his clumsy mien, Pronounced him straight the poets' alderman.