Faith, with that of Acton, Middlesex, in 1730; the chaplaincy to George II, 1730; and the archdeaconry of London, in which he succeeded Robert Tyrwhit, in 1742.
[3] Cobden's early work A Letter from a Minister to his Parishioner, upon his Building a Meeting-House, London, 1718 marked him out as a High Churchman.
He speaks of his chaplaincy, and affirms that the reward received for his 22 years' service was one meal a fortnight and no salary.
William Whiston calls it "that seasonable and excellent sermon" delivered "when crime between the sexes was at its greatest height".
In 1748, he published a volume entitled Poems on several Occasions, London, printed for the widow of a clergyman, formerly his curate.
In this work he eulogises Stephen Duck's poetic fame, glorifies somebody's squirrel and a lady's canary, and laments over a dead cow.
[3] In 1756, Cobden published A Poem sacred to the Memory of Queen Anne for her Bounty to the Clergy, London.