William Cookesbury

William Cookesbury or Coksbery, or Cookisbury was a London capper, haberdasher, and supplier of feathers.

[1] Cookesbury provided plumes of ostrich feathers for the horses at the funeral of Elizabeth I, their trappings were gilded by the painter Leonard Fryer.

[5] Cookesbury supplied feathers to decorate the chariots and canopies used at the Royal Entry to London in 1604.

Cookesbury supplied "divers ffanes and fethers" for the masque costumes of The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses, which he delivered to Audrey Walsingham and Elizabeth Carey.

[8] King James made Cookesbury and his son-in-law Denis Peiper his official suppliers of hats and feathers for his beds and stables in around 1607, and so he was known as a royal haberdasher and received a retaining fee.