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	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...
		Sir Edward Coke is considered one of the important figures in the history of common law.
	www.montaguemillennium.com /familyresearch/h_1631_cotton.htm (2492 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (Libraries, Books, And Printing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		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)

	Robert Cotton -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The English antiquarian Robert Cotton was the founder of the Cottonian Library and a prominent member of Parliament during the reign of Charles I. The collection of historical documents amassed by Cotton in his library eventually formed the basis of the manuscript collection of the British Museum.
		Robert Bruce Cotton was born on Jan. 22, 1571, in Denton, Lancashire.
		U.S. painter and sculptor Robert Rauschenberg is considered one of the major artists of the latter half of the 20th century.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9320461 (772 words)

	PEEL, SIR ROBERT, BART - Online Information article about PEEL, SIR ROBERT, BART (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The writers who have most severely censured Sir Robert Peel as a public man have dwelt on the virtues and happiness of his private and domestic life.
		The result was a majority of ninety-one against them on a motion of want of confidence in the autumn of 1841, upon which they resigned, and Sir Robert Peel became first lord of the treasury, with a commanding majority in both Houses of Parliament.
		alienation of any part of the revenues of the Established Church Sir Robert Peel never would consent; but he had issued the ecclesiastical commission, and he now made better provision for a number of populous parishes by a redistribution of part of the revenues of the Church.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PEEL_SIR_ROBERT_BART.html (5080 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.
		The Autobiography and Correspondence of Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
		Cronne, H. "The Study and Use of Charters by English Scholars in the Seventeenth Century: Sir Henry Spelman and Sir William Dugdale." English Historical Scholarship in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~ctb/17abcd.html (384 words)

	WARE FAMILY HISTORY
		Sir Hugh was born 1190 in Folkington, Sussex, England, and was the son of Hugh de Fokinton and Egelene.
		In 1398 it was allotted to Richard Warre, one of the co-heirs of Sir Henry Percehaye.
		Robert Beverley, a wealthy landowner, instituted crop rotation, made permanent improvement in his fields, imported grapevines from England and developed his own strains of wine, stated to be the best in the colony.
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	cremation
		The first was 'A Narrative of the Fire...and of the Methods used for preserving and recovering the Manuscripts of the Royal and Cottonian libraries',(5) compiled by the Reverend William Whiston the younger, the clerk in charge of the records kept in the Chapter House at Westminster, another notorious firetrap.
		(14) Cotton's pride and joy, the fifth-century Greek Genesis (Otho B. VI), one of the earliest illustrated Christian manuscripts in existence, was reduced to a pile of cinder-like fragments.
		Forshall is a forgotten pioneer in the restoration of the Cotton Manuscripts.
	www.uky.edu /~kiernan/eBeowulf/ajp-pms.htm (19623 words)

	Free Essay Analysis Of Sir Gawain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first edited and published in 1839 by Madden, whose entire name in uncertain.
		Sir Gawain is introduced as a Knight of the Round Table in King Authur's court in Camelot during the fifteen day Christmas and New Year's celebration.
		Sir Gawain is supposed to be a flawless knight.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25535 (2685 words)

	COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE - Online Information article about COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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 (1420 words)

	Alfred the Great’s Burnt Boethius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cotton Otho A. vi was one of the many Anglo-Saxon manuscripts first retrieved from the garret sometime after 1825 by then keeper Josiah Forshall.
		Once the Cotton binding and two of the three formerly unrelated texts were destroyed by the fire in 1731, there was no compelling reason, at any rate, to restore it as Cotton Otho A. vi, as if it still were the same book.
		It is remarkable that, proceeding from the practice begun by Christopher Rawlinson at the end of the seventeenth century, all modern editions have printed the Meters separately, as if they made sense as a group outside of their larger context.
	beowulf.engl.uky.edu /~kiernan/eBoethius/iconic/iconic.html (7153 words)

	Nashe's 'four friends'
		Sir Robert was clearly a man of real gravitas in 1626, a revered scholar and a political heavyweight.
		Cotton's chamberfellow at the Inns of Court was John Davies, whose unpublished work Nashe refers to in Strange Newes (1592).
		Over Christmas 1593 Nashe was briefly part of the household of Sir George Carey, for whom Cotton later acted in some capacity and at whose Blackfriars house he lodged in the late 1590s.
	www.members.tripod.com /sicttasd/fourfriends.html (1454 words)

	John Selden
		His earliest patron was Sir Robert Cotton, the antiquary, by whom he seems to have been employed in copying and abridging certain of the parliamentary records then preserved in the Tower.
		He was with several of the members committed to prison, at first in the Tower and subsequently under the charge of Sir Robert Ducie, sheriff of London.
		In 1628 at the suggestion of Sir Robert Cotton he had compiled, with the assistance of two learned coadjutors, Patrick Young and Richard James, a catalogue of the Arundel marbles.
	www.nndb.com /people/730/000094448 (1621 words)

	Huntingdonshire Family History Society - Huntingdonshire - Conington
		At the village, within a square intrenchment, are vestiges of an ancient castle, which, with the lordship, was given by Canute to Turkill, a Danish lord, who, taking advantage of his residence among the East Angles, invited over Sueno to plunder the country.
		After Turkill's departure it fell to Waldeof, Earl of Huntingdon, who married Judith, niece to the Conqueror, from whom it descended to the royal line of Scotland, and thence to the Cottons, ancestors of Sir Robert Cotton, celebrated for his valuable collection of books and MSS., known by the name of the Cottonian Library.
		Sir Robert Cotton, Bart., on making an excavation for a pond, found the skeleton of a sea-fish, twenty feet long, lying in perfect silt, about six feet below the surface of the ground, and as much above the present level of the fens.
	www.huntsfhs.org.uk /Huntingdonshire/Conington.html (316 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)

	Descendants of Edward Brice M.A.
		Robert Brice was born in 1613 and died in 1676.
		Robert Brice, William Brice, John Brice, Nancy Simonton, wife of your petitioner, Walter Brice, Samuel Brice, Jennett Brice, wife of John Brice, David Brice, Mary Miller, wife of George Miller, children of said intestate, and Leroy Grissom, son of Jane Grissam, deceased, who was a daughter of said James Brice, deceased.
		Robert Wilson was an earnest patriot and is said to have suffered greatly at the hands of the Tories.
	www.mindspring.com /~dbn/genealogy/d1.htm (14427 words)

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		Bendy Or and azure, a bordure gules.* ROBERT, DUKE OF BURGOGNE, brother of Henry I of France, NKNP.
		According to Peacham (1622), Robert adopted "the ancient arms of the Dukes of Burgogne," which were supposedly "given by Charlemagne to Sanson Duke of Burgogne." Bendy sinister of eight azure and gules, a lion statant argent.* An IDF unit badge, NKNP; number uncertain.
		According to Peacham (1622), these arms were borne on a lozenge shield by Lady Mary Sidney, late wife of Sir Robert Wroth and daughter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Viscount Lisle, Lord Sidney of Penshurst, and Companion of the Garter; she was the author of Urania.
	www.pvv.ntnu.no /~bcd/rolemaster/novi/her-list.txt (18606 words)

	Gwynneth Bowen - What Happened at Hedingham and Earls Colne?
		As Sir Thomas Smith put it, by the time a ward came of age, his inheritance, was often reduced to "woods decayed, old houses, stock wasted, land ploughed to the bare".
		Robert Christmas evidently went with the house, but he, or perhaps his son, turns up later as a servant of the 17th Earl of Oxford.
		So it was not Cecil; not Charles Tyrrell; but Robert Dudley who succeeded Edward's father (for the time being) as Lord of the Manors of Castle Hedingham, Earls Colne etc. The spoils were divided: Tyrrell married the late Earl's widow; Cecil obtained the custody of his son; but Dudley got the lands.
	www.sourcetext.com /sourcebook/library/bowen/23colne2.htm (3955 words)

	Thomas Nashe, satirist, Elizabethan writer. Letters
		Will Cotton was the servant of Sir George Carey, governor of the Isle of Wight.
		His connection with Will Cotton however may go back that far or even earlier - William Cotton was apparently related to Sir Robert Cotton, with whom Nashe spent time in early 1593.
		Though Harington was considered an amusing writer and the title of his work is a pun on 'a jakes' (Elizabethan slang for a privy), the book actually described a functioning water closet which would flush away sewage into a drain.
	members.tripod.com /sicttasd/wclet2.html (517 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.
		Sir Robert Cotton, 1586-1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England, by Keven Sharpe (Oxford U. Press).
	www.library.unr.edu /subjects/guides/beowulf.html (2394 words)

	House of Commons Journal Volume 10: 9 January 1693 \| British History Online
		Ordered, That Sir Robert Cotton do carry the Bill to the Lords; and acquaint them, That this House hath agreed to the same, without any Amendments.
		Sir Edward Seymour presented to the House a Bill for Increase and Preservation of Timber within the New Forest, in the County of Southampton.
		Speaker, The Lords have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act for the Sale of Lands by Sir Robert Smith, and settling other Lands of a greater Value to the same Uses, in lieu thereof: To which they desire the Concurrence of this House.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=29283 (844 words)

	Henry Spelman
		English antiquary, the eldest son of Henry Spelman, of Congham, Norfolk, and the grandson of Sir John Spelman (c.
		He belonged to the Society of Antiquaries, of which Sir Robert Cotton and William Camden were also members.
		The society gradually declined, and Spelman's efforts to revive it in 1614 were frustrated by King James I.
	www.nndb.com /people/830/000094548 (759 words)

	Print Article: Appreciation for powerful organiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		From her home on Bilgola Plateau in Sydney's north, and to the sound of kookaburras in the distance, Ms Williams recalled her working life from the time she was employed by a former Liberal minister, Sir Robert Cotton.
		Married for the past eight years to a former NSW Special Branch officer, she was single at the time when she worked up to 14 hours a day, moving from the office of Sir Robert to that of Whitlam minister Fred Daly and hence to the office of Mr Howard.
		Although her AO came "out of the blue" it does have a precedent: Hazel Craig, the private secretary of Sir Robert Menzies, who was appointed an MBE in 1953 and an OBE seven years later.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/01/25/1074965439105.html (450 words)

	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the Pearl Poet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the Pearl Poet
		Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is part of the legend about King Arthur.
		After being forgotten for over 400 years, the manuscript was discovered in the British Library, belonging to a collection of the Elizabethan bibliophile, Sir Robert Cotton.
	www.smarrpublishers.com /page6060.html (170 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?search=miller&searchmode=phrase (138 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		The British Museum was founded in 1753, incorporating the collection of the British physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753); the Harleian Collection, formed by the statesman Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford; and the Cottonian Library, organized by the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton (1571–1631).
		In 1847 the building on Great Russell St., in the Bloomsbury section of London, was completed.
		The collection includes much material excavated at the ancient city of Ur by the English archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley (1880–1960).
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..br177700.a (420 words)

	COTTON, JOHN (1585—1652) - Online Information article about COTTON, JOHN (1585—1652) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		COTTON, JOHN (1585—1652) - Online Information article about COTTON, JOHN (1585—1652)
		SKETCH (directly adapted from Dutch schets, which was taken from Ital.
		CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /COR_CRE/COTTON_JOHN_15851652_.html (979 words)

	Manuscripta Conference Paper Batchelor 10-04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shen’s visit came at the end of an era, as the Jacobean and Restoration vision of emporial London degenerated into farce. Michael Shen arrived in London in March of 1687 with his superior F. Spinola, where they attended the installation of the Catholic archbishop in April, a highly charged event.
		The image itself is strangely deist in which the “Chinese convert” looks not to the Jesuit and Catholic icon of the cross but upwards towards the heavens for inspiration (oddly reminiscent of the Eikon Basilike)—raising the question of whether it was a religious painting or a portrait.
		Sir William Temple, “Upon the Gardens of Epicurus: Gardening in the Year 1685” in Miscellanea, vol.
	www.georgiasouthern.edu /~batchelo/manuscriptapaper.htm (3560 words)

	The Round Room Comes to an End
		Sir Robert Bruce Cotton proposed the idea of a national library as early as the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, but little came of it until the mid-18th century, when Sir Hans Sloane offered his remarkable ''cabinet of curiosities'' to the nation.
		Thomas Carlyle, arriving at the museum to do research for his monumental ''History of the French Revolution,'' often had to sit on the steps of a ladder for lack of a seat at one of the tables.
		Among his competitors for a chair were the future Cardinal Manning, Sir Walter Scott, Roget of Roget's Thesaurus, William Thackeray, Robert Browning and -- appropriately -- Charles Darwin.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/97/11/09/bookend/bookend.html (1262 words)

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