COLE, WILLIAM, an eminent botanist, was born at Adderbury, Oxfordshire, about A.D. 1626, and studied at Mereton College, Oxford. He afterwards removed to Putney, and published The Art of Simpling, and Adam in Eden, or Nature's Paradise. Upon the restoration of Charles II. he became secretary to Dr Dupa, bishop of Winchester; but died two years after, at the age of 37.