John Bull the past Navy blue, but more recently with the Union Jack colours). Britannia, or a lion, is sometimes used as an alternative in some editorial cartoons. As a literary figure, John Bull is well-intentioned, frustrated, full of common sense, and entirely of native country stock. Unlike Uncle Sam later, he is not a figure of authority but rather a yeoman who prefers his small beer and domestic peace, possessed of neither patriarchal power nor heroic defiance. John Arbuthnot provided him with a sister named Peg (Scotland), and a traditional adversary in Louis Baboon (the House of Bourbon in France). Peg
John Cosin 5 vols of the Oxford "Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology", was published between 1843 and 1855; and his "Correspondence" (2 vols) was edited by Canon Ornsby for the Surtees Society (1868–1870). Among his notable work was the translation of "Veni Creator Spiritus" included in the 1662 revision of the Book of Common Prayer; written for the Coronation of King Charles I of Great Britain, and sung at every coronation since that time. The first verse is: John Cosin John Cosin (30 November 1594 – 15 January 1672) was an English churchman. He was born at Norwich, and was educated at Norwich