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RANDLE COTGRAVE (?-1634)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 249 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COTGRAVE (?-1634)  , See also:English lexicographer, came of a See also:Cheshire See also:family, and was educated at See also:Cambridge, entering St See also:John's See also:College in 1587 . He became secretary to See also:Lord See also:Burghley, and in 161' published his See also:French-English See also:dictionary (2nd ed., 1632), a See also:work of real See also:historical importance in lexicography, and still valuable in spite of such errors as were due to contemporary want of exact scholarship .

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