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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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RANDLE

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COTGRAVE (?-1634)  ,
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English lexicographer, came of a
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Cheshire
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family, and was educated at
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Cambridge, entering St
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John's
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College in 1587 . He became secretary to
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Lord
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Burghley, and in 161' published his
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French-English
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dictionary (2nd ed., 1632), a
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work of real
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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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