See also:SIR See also:ROBERT See also:BRUCE See also:COTTON
, See also:Bart
.
(1571-1631), See also:English See also:antiquary, the founder of the Cottonian library, See also:born at See also:Denton in See also:Huntingdonshire on the 22nd of See also:January 1571, was a descendant, as he delighted to boast, of See also:Robert See also:Bruce
.
He was educated at See also:Westminster school under See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Camden the antiquary, and at Jesus See also:College, See also:Cambridge
.
His antiquarian tastes were See also:early displayed in the collection of See also:ancient records, charters and other See also:manuscripts, which had been dispersed from the monastic See also:libraries in the reign of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII.; and through-out the whole of his See also:life he was an energetic See also:collector of antiquities from all parts of See also:England and the See also:continent
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His See also:house at Westminster had a See also:garden going down to the See also:river and occupied See also:part of the site of the See also:present House of Lords
.
It was the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting-See also:place in the last years of See also:Elizabeth's reign of the antiquarian society founded by See also:Archbishop See also:Parker
.
In 1600 See also:Cotton visited the See also:north of England with Camden in See also:search of Pictish and See also:Roman monuments and See also:inscriptions
.
His reputation as an See also:expert in See also:heraldry led to his being asked by See also:Queen Elizabeth to discuss the question of See also:precedence between the English See also:ambassador and the See also:envoy of See also:Spain, then in treaty at See also:Calais
.
He See also:drew up an elaborate See also:paper establishing the precedence of the English ambassador
.
On the See also:accession of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. he was knighted, and in 16o8 he wrote a Memorial on Abuses in the See also:Navy, that resulted in a navy See also:commission, of which he was made a member
.
He also presented to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king an See also:historical Inquiry into the See also:Crown Revenues, in which he speaks freely about the expenses of the royal See also:household, and asserts that See also:tonnage and poundage are only to be levied in See also:war See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, and to " proceed out of See also:good will, not of See also:duty." In this paper he supported the creation of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of baronets, each of whom was to pay the crown £See also:i000; and in 1611 he himself received the See also:title
.
Cotton helped See also:john See also:Speed in the compilation of his See also:History of England (1611), and was regarded by contemporaries as the compiler of Camden's History of Elizabeth
.
It seems more likely that it was executed by Camden, but that Cotton exercised a See also:general supervision, especially with regard to the See also:story of See also:Mary queen of Scots
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The presentation of his See also:mother's history was naturally important to James I., and Cotton himself took a keen See also:interest in the See also:matter
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He had had the See also:room in Fotheringay where Mary was executed transferred to his See also:family seat at Connington
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Meanwhile he was enlarging his collection of documents
.
In 1614 See also:Arthur See also:Agarde (q.v.) See also:left his papers to him, and Camden's manuscripts came to him in 1623
.
In 1615 Cotton, as the intimate of the See also:earl of See also:Somerset, whose innocence he always maintained, was placed in confinement on the See also:charge of being implicated in the See also:murder of See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Overbury; he confessed that he had acted as intermediary between Sarmiento, the See also:Spanish ambassador, and Somerset, and had altered the See also:dates of Somerset's See also:correspondence
.
He was released after about eight months' imprisonment without formal trial, and obtained a See also:pardon on See also:payment of £500
.
His friendship with See also:Gondomar, Spanish ambassador in England from 1613 to 1621,brought further suspicion, probably undeserved, upon Cotton, of unduly favouring the See also:Catholic party
.
From See also:Charles I. and See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham Cotton received no favour; his attitude towards the See also:court had begun to See also:change, and he became the intimate friend of Sir John See also:Eliot, Sir Simonds d'Ewes and John See also:Selden
.
He had entered See also:parliament in 1604 as member for See also:Huntingdon; in 1624 he sat for Old Sarum; in 1625 for See also:Thetford; and in 1628 for See also:Castle Rising, See also:Norfolk
.
In the debate on See also:supply in 1625 Cotton provided Eliot with full notes defending the See also:action of the opposition in parliament, and in 1628 the leaders of the party met at Cotton's house to decide on their policy
.
In 1626 he gave See also:advice before the See also:council against debasing the See also:standard of the coinage; and in January 1628 he was again before the council, urging the See also:summons of a. parliament
.
His arguments on the latter occasion are contained in his See also:tract entitled The Danger in which the See also:Kingdom now standeth and the Remedy
.
In See also:October of the next See also:year he was arrested, together with the earls of See also:Bedford, Somerset, and See also:Clare, for having circulated, with ironical purpose, a tract known as the Proposition to bridle Parliament, which had been addressed some fifteen years before by Sir Robert See also:Dudley to James I., advising him to govern by force; the circulation of this by Parliamentarians was regarded as intended to insinuate that Charles's See also:government was arbitrary and unconstitutional
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Cotton denied knowledge of the matter, but the See also:original was discovered in his house, and the copies had been put in circulation by a See also:young See also:man who lived after him and was said to be his natural son
.
Cotton was himself released the next See also:month; but the proceedings in the See also:star chamber continued, and, to his intense vexation, his library was sealed up by the king
.
He died on the 6th of May 1631, and was buried in Connington See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, Huntingdonshire, where there is a See also:monument to his memory
.
Many of Cotton's See also:pamphlets were widely read in See also:manuscript during his lifetime, but only two of his See also:works were printed, The Reign of Henry III
.
(1627) and The Danger in which the Kingdom now Standeth (1628)
.
His son, Sir Thomas (1594=1662), added considerably to the Cottonian library; and Sir John, the See also:fourth See also:baronet, presented it to the nation in 1700
.
In 1I the collection, which had in the See also:interval been removed to the Strand, and thence to See also:Ashburnham House, was seriously damaged by See also:fire
.
In 1753 it was transferred to the See also:British Museum
.
See the See also:article LIBRARIES, and See also:- EDWARDS, AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD (1831-1892)
- EDWARDS, BELA BATES (18o2-1852)
- EDWARDS, BRYAN (1743–1800)
- EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693–1773)
- EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837–1884)
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703—1758)
- EDWARDS, LEWIS (1806–1887 )
- EDWARDS, RICHARD (c. 1523–1566)
- EDWARDS, T
- EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837–1900)
Edwards's Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, vol. i
.
Several of Cotton's papers have been printedunder the title Cottoni Posthuma; others were published by Thomas See also:Hearne
.
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