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	Robert Bruce Cotton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portrait of Robert Cotton, commissioned 1626 and attributed to Cornelius Johnson (or Janssen), (1593-1661).
		Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (January 22 1570/1-May 6, 1631) was an English politician, founder of the famous Cotton library.
		Cotton Caligula A.ii "A Pistil of Susan" (frag.)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Bruce_Cotton (375 words)

	SIR ROBERT BRUCE COTTON - LoveToKnow Article on SIR ROBERT BRUCE COTTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cotton helped John Speed in the compilation of his History of England (161f), and was regarded by contemporaries as the compiler of Camdens History of Elizabeth.
		In 1615 Cotton, as the intimate of the earl of Somerset, whose innocence he always maintained, was placed in confinement on the charge of being implicated in.
		Cotton was himself released the next month; but the proceedings in the star chamber continued, and, to his intense vexation, his library was sealed up by the king.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COTTON_SIR_ROBERT_BRUCE.htm (1002 words)

	Robert Cotton, 1571-1631
		Essentially, Cotton was framed on charges of `treason', and the library seized by Charles I (on the instigation of Buckingham).
		Cotton viewed his library as a working collection and adopted an arrangement that was utilitarian rather than bibliographically correct by modern standards...
		Cotton was assisted by his librarian, Richard James, who, despite D'Ewes's accusation that he sold his master's papers, seems to have served Cotton well.
	www.montaguemillennium.com /familyresearch/h_1631_cotton.htm (2492 words)

	Robert Cotton
		English antiquary, the founder of the Cottonian Library, born at Denton in Huntingdonshire on the 22nd of January 1571, was a descendant, as he delighted to boast, of Robert the Bruce.
		Cotton helped John Speed in the compilation of his History of England (1611), and was regarded by contemporaries as the compiler of Camden's History of Elizabeth.
		Cotton denied knowledge of the matter, but the original was discovered in his house, and the copies had been put in circulation by a young man who lived after him and was said to be his natural son.
	www.nndb.com /people/838/000094556 (759 words)

	Robert Bruce Cotton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The lindisfarne gospels are an illustrated latin edition of the gospels of matthew, gospel of markmark, luke and gospel of johnjohn....
		Cotton Otho C.i Ælfric's[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] De creatore et creatura
		The anglo-saxon chronicle is a collection of (mainly) secondary source documents narrating the history of the anglo-saxons and their settlement in britain....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_bruce_cotton.htm (1458 words)

	Robert the Bruce
		Robert I, king of Scotland - Robert I or Robert the Bruce,1274–1329, king of Scotland (1306–29).
		Robert Bruce MACON - MACON, Robert Bruce (1859—1925) MACON, Robert Bruce, a Representative from Arkansas; born...
		Robert Bruce Fraser PEIRCE - PEIRCE, Robert Bruce Fraser (1843—1898) PEIRCE, Robert Bruce Fraser, a Representative from...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0918003.html (96 words)

	Sir Robert Cotton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (1571–1631), English antiquary
		Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet of Combermere (c.
		This human name article is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_Robert_Cotton (122 words)

	COTTON-SPINNING MACHINERY - LoveToKnow Article on COTTON-SPINNING MACHINERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In this state many mules continued to be used until the last decade of the 19th century, and a few are still in use.
		Between the years 1824 and 1830 Richard Roberts invented mechanism that rendered all parts of the mule self-acting, the chief parts of which are shown at (I,J), and they regulate the rotation of the spindles during the inward run of the carriage.
		In order to prepare threads for doubling it may be necessary to wind side by side upon a flanged bobbin, or upon a,straight or a tapering spool, from two to six threads before twisting them into one.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COTTON_SPINNING_MACHINERY.htm (1540 words)

	COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE - Online Information article about COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE
		January 1571, was a descendant, as he delighted to boast, of Robert Bruce.
		SOMERSET, ROBERT CARR (or KER), EARL OF (e.
		action of the opposition in parliament, and in 1628 the leaders of the party met at Cotton's house to decide on their policy.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /COR_CRE/COTTON_SIR_ROBERT_BRUCE.html (1456 words)

	Creating a Great Museum: Early Collectors and The British Museum
		Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631) was a voracious collector whose collection, now in the British Library, includes such gems as the manuscript of Beowulf--the earliest manuscript epic poem in the English language, with which generations of English Literature students have battled, the Lindisfarne Gospels, and two copies of Magna Carta.
		In his single-minded pursuit of manuscripts, it is recorded of Cotton, that having heard that the astrologer Dr Dee had buried a cache in a field, he bought the land on which the field was located and undertook excavations there.
		Cotton was in the right place at the right time, for Henry VIII's earlier dissolution of the monasteries had resulted in the dispersal of a great number of treasures that had survived in monastic seclusion over the centuries.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701728/session2.html (1487 words)

	Harleian Library articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Long a part of the British Museum, the library collection originated in 1753 when the government purchased the Harleian Library, the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, and groups of manuscripts.
		Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE [Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce] 1571-1631, English antiquarian.
		Harley, Robert, 1st earl of Oxford HARLEY, ROBERT, 1ST EARL OF OXFORD [Harley, Robert, 1st earl of Oxford] 1661-1724, English statesman and bibliophile.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/20735.html (293 words)

	Cotten
		Cotton were not tried as traitors in spite of their apparently well known leanings toward Bacon’s concerns indicates favor and rank.
		Bruce's "Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, " collected from the remains of this and other contemporary planter families, enables one, with the aid of the philosophic fantasy to picture the planter Harrisons and their manner of life.
		Ann Cotton's letter to Christopher Harris is condensed version of a manuscript known as "The Burwell Papers." The author of the Burwell Papers took care to hide his identity, presumably for fear of reprisals from Gov. Berkeley because of the manuscripts sympathetic treatment of Nathaniel Bacon.
	www.sallysfamilyplace.com /MulberryGrove/cottenj.htm (5607 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (Libraries, Books, And Printing, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Cottonian collection of books, manuscripts, coins, and antiquities became a part of the British Museum when it was founded in 1753.
		Cotton collected especially Hebrew and Greek manuscripts and Anglo-Saxon charters.
		Cotton was an antiroyalist parliamentarian whose opinions brought him two terms in prison.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Cotton-S.html (215 words)

	January 22nd
		Cotton was knighted by James I, during whose reign he was much consulted by the privy councillors and ministers of state upon difficult points relating to the constitution.
		He was also employed by King James to vindicate Mary Queen of Scots from the supposed misrepresentations of Buchanan and Thuanus; and he next, by order of the king, examined, with great learning, the question whether the Papists ought, by the laws of the land, to be put to death or to be imprisoned.
		After all, Raleigh did lease at least two portions of the lands, one to John Cleaver, another to Robert Rove, both in 1589, for rents which were to be of a certain amount 'after the decease of the Lady Cattelyn old Countess Dowager of Desmond, widow,' as the documents shew.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/jan/22.htm (5164 words)

	Dianne Elizabeth's Family History
		Sir Robert's first wife was Anne, daughter of Charles Barret, Esquire, of Belhouse, county Essex, and his second marriage was to Mary, daughter of Sir Francis Newport, by neither of whom however did he have any children to survive.
		Sir Robert Harley died on the 6th November, 1656, and was survived by his eldest son, Sir Edward Harley.
		In 1753 it was purchased for £10,000 by the British government and with the collections of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton and Sir Hans Sloane formed the basis of the British Museum Library.
	www.dianneelizabeth.com /Surname/Harley/earl_of_oxford.html (1492 words)

	BeoManuscript
		The manuscript, which is written in two different hands, was found in the collection of Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631); written at its top is the name of Laurence Nowell, an earlier antiquarian and Anglo-Saxon scholar.
		Today the manuscript is known as Cotton Vitellius Axv because each bookcase in Cotton's collection held the bust of a different Roman Emperor.
		The Cotton collection was donated to the British government in 1700.
	www.unlv.edu /Faculty/jmstitt/Eng446/beomanuscript.html (253 words)

	Cotton, Wanley, & Kemble
		The portrait, attributed to Cornelius Johnson (1593-1661), shows Cotton with his left hand resting on his prized manuscript of the Book of Genesis (Cotton Otho B. vi), which was all but destroyed in the disastrous fire at Ashburnham House in 1731.
		The portrait of Cotton remained throughout the seventeenth century at Stowlangtoft, and was seen there by Humfrey Wanley in October 1703.
		A fifth portrait of Wanley, painted by Thomas Hill in 1722, was presented to the British Museum by Robert Westfaling, and now hangs in the Students' Room of the Department of Manuscripts, British Library.
	www.trin.cam.ac.uk /chartwww/antiquaries.html (1814 words)

	BeowulfTranslations.net: Ashburnham House Fire
		The gift of the Cotton library to the nation in 1700 had embarassed the government, which was unwilling to meet the costs of providing adequate accommodation or other administrative expenses.
		A committee of the House of commons became the trustees of the library, with the speaker, Robert Harley, as the chief trustee.
		By 1722, Cotton House was in such bad shape that the collection had to be removed to Essex House, Strand, where it remained for the duration of a seven-year lease, which was not renewed because Essex House was considered a firetrap.
	www.beowulftranslations.net /fire.shtml (2161 words)

	Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE [Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce] 1571-1631, English antiquarian.
		The composition and social context of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29(II) and London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A.ix.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Cotton-S.asp (272 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Philip Miller of the Chelsea Physic Garden sent the first cotton seeds to American colony of Georgia in 1732.
		Cotton-picking was first recorded in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but the noun meaning "contemptible person" dates to around 1919, probably with racist overtones that have faded over the years.
		The Cottonian library in the British Museum is from Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1570-1631).
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?term=cotton (89 words)

	Gervase CLIFTON (Sir)
		Two previous owners of Leighton Bromswold, Sir Robert Tyrwhitt and Sir Henry Darcy, had been knights of the shire for Huntingdonshire, and in 1597 and 1601 it was Clifton's turn.
		Clifton probably had connexions with the Earl of Essex as, after the abortive rising of 1601, his name was suggested as one who might take part in a plot to release the Earl.
		Later he turned to Robert Cecil, whom he petitioned for some stewardships of royal manors in Nov 1603.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/GervaseClifton(Sir).htm (398 words)

	Beowulf Project - The Manuscript
		Some time later, it entered into the manuscript collection of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631) and was shelved under the bust of Roman Emperor Aulus Vitellius shelf A, position 15; hence the name Cotton Vitellius A. xv.
		By 1722, Cotton's house had deteriorated and the collection was moved to Essex House in Strand.
		Following the fire damage and subsequent remounting of the manuscript, it is not longer possible to be certain which folios went together in quires.
	www.humanities.mcmaster.ca /~beowulf/manuscript.html (625 words)

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		"Sir Robert Cotton as Collector of Manuscripts and the Question of Dismemberment: British Library MSS Royal 13 D.I and Cotton Otho D.VIII." The Library 6th series, 14 (1992), 94-99.
		"Camden, Cotton and the Chronicles of the Norman Conquest of England." British Library Journal 18 (1992), 148-62.
		Sir Robert Cotton 1586-1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~ctb/17abcd.html (384 words)

	Scots and Scots Descendants - C
		Chicago depot of The Spool Cotton Co., successors of the Coats Thread Co., having thread factories as Pawtucket, R.I.; Newark, N.J. and Paisley, Scotland.
		Robert was prominent in municipal councils and was a generous supporter of the Illinois St. Andrew Society." McMillan.
		Citation: Cotton served on board the U.S.S. Baron De Kalb in the Yazoo River expedition, 23 to 27 December 1862.
	www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/names-C.htm (13553 words)

	Manuscripts - Foundations Collections
		Sir Robert's grandson, Sir John Cotton, presented the collection to the nation in 1700.
		In 1731, they were housed in Ashburnham House, Westminster, where a fire broke out, destroying or damaging a quarter of the manuscripts; many were restored under the direction of the 19th-century Keeper of Manuscripts, Sir Frederic Madden.
		In Sir Robert's original library, the manuscripts were housed in presses surmounted by busts of the Twelve Caesars and two Imperial Ladies.
	www.bl.uk /collections/foundation.html (409 words)

	Resources for the Study of Beowulf
		It was once owned by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, an "antiquary" or collector of Anglo-Saxon Charters and manuscripts, whose library was among three foundation collections brought together by the creation of the British Museum in 1753.
		Sir Robert bound Beowulf with four other MSS in a combined codex known as Cotton MS.Vitellius A.xv, the 15th item on the first shelf of the "press" of manuscripts under the bust of Emperor Vitellius in his library.
		Their Present Miserable State of Cremation: the Restoration of the Cotton Library, online version of an article by Andrew Prescott, in Sir Robert Cotton as Collector: Essays on an Early Stuart Courtier and His Legacy, ed.
	www.library.unr.edu /subjects/guides/beowulf.html (2383 words)

	Beowulf - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The earliest known owner is the 16th century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is known, though its official designation is Cotton Vitellius A.XV due to its inclusion in the catalog of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the middle of the 17th century.
		It suffered irreparable damage in the Cotton Library fire at the ominously-named Ashburnham House in 1731.
		Professor Robert F. Yeager notes the role of Christianity poses one of the mysteries surrounding Beowulf: "That the scribes of Cotton Vitellius A.XV were Christian is beyond doubt; and it is equally certain that Beowulf was composed in a Christianized England, since conversion took place in the sixth and seventh centuries.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Beowulf (4248 words)

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