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Name Cotton, Thomas, 2nd Baronet, 1594-1662

1. Add MS 25248

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Add MS 25248
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COLLECTIONS relating to the Court of Requests; tempp . Edw.VI.- Jac. I. An index is added with the following heading:-"Hune tractatum habuj ex dono Thomæ Cotton baronetti ex studio suo antiquitatum, 1638. Hæc Index alphabetica facta fuit per me Rob. Bernard, Aug. 1638." Paper; xviith cent. Folio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 34727

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Add MS 34727
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WEST PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 289). Miscellaneous letters, mostly original, of interest historically or otherwise; 1532-1734. The names of all the writers are given in the index. Among them are:- 1. John Fox, the Martyrologist, to Sir [William] Cecil, Sec. of State, asking licence to print his Tab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1532-1734
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 36682 A-B

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Add MS 36682 A-B
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CATALOGUE of the Cotton Manuscripts, of uncertain date but earlier than 1654, as appears from a marginal note of a book lent to " Mr Selden " (Vol. I. f. 78 b). The MSS. are arranged under their press-marks still in use, but the list is not quite complete, wanting descriptions of the press Augustus and of shelves Caligula B.-E., Vespasian E. and F., Titus F., Faustina C.-F., and several single MSS. In two cases (Jul. B. x, Vit. B. i) the MS. gives particulars of MSS. lost before Smith's cata...
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Cotton Library: Catalogues of,: temp. Chas. I. 1635. Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet; of Conington: Catalogue of the Cotton Library signed by. Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet: Catalogue of the Cotton Library signed by. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Sir R. Cotton's MSS.: circ. 1635, temp. Chas.I. ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
before 1654
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2 items

4. Add MS 61681

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Add MS 61681
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Vol. DLXXXI (ff. 189). (1) Family papers, etc.; [1602?]-bef. 1668. Partly Latin. ff. 1-8b. (2) Papers concerning the collection of ship money in Hertfordshire; 1636, 1637. Contemporary copies, presumably used as precedents by Boteler. ff. 9-18. (3) Assessments, etc., of ship money in Bedfo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1601-1668
Extent:
1 item

5. Cotton Ch I 2/1

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Cotton Ch I 2/1
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Papers relating to the case of William Williams and others against Sir Robert Cotton and others, concerning rents in Huntingdonshire
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Papers relating to the case of William Williams and others against Sir Robert Cotton and others. This volume may have been created as a dossier for the defendants' lawyers. The plaintiffs in this case were William Williams, Robert Michell, Walter Marks, Robert Marsh, Edward Ditchfield, John Hig...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1631
Extent:
1 booklet

6. Cotton Ch I 3/2

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Cotton Ch I 3/2
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Dossier of documents relating to the attempted blackmail of Sir Robert Cotton
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A dossier of documents relating to the attempted blackmail of Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), 1st baronet. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Confession of Anne Pike, wife of Richard Pike, retracting the accusations she made against him and begging his forgiveness. 22 July 1630. ff. 3r-v: Letter from Robert...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630-1631
Extent:
1 booklet

7. Cotton Ch I 3/3

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Cotton Ch I 3/3
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Confession of John Stephenson, accused of defamation by Sir Robert Cotton
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Confession of John Stephenson of St Margaret's Parish, Westminster, who has been summoned in a case of defamation by Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), 1st baronet, knight. Stephenson confesses that in August or September 1630, he falsely accused Cotton of attempting to have carnal knowledge of Mar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:
1 leaf

8. Cotton Ch I 3/4

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Cotton Ch I 3/4
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Testimony of Amphillis Ferrours that John Wilcox and others had falsely accused Sir Robert Cotton of having had carnal knowledge of Margaret Ferrours
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Testimony of Amphillis Ferrours, widow, of St Margaret's Parish, Westminster, that John Wilcox, Jane, his wife, and Thomas Jones had falsely accused Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), 1st baronet, knight, of having had carnal knowledge of Margaret Ferrours, her daughter and the wife of John Stephens...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1630
Extent:
1 leaf

9. Cotton Ch I 4

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Cotton Ch I 4
Title:
Rentals of the manors of Aylesbury, Bierton Huckett, Ellesborough, Weston and Belgrove
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Rentals of the manors of Sir John Pakington (1621-80), 2nd baronet, namely of Aylesbury, Bierton Huckett, Ellesborough, Weston and Belgrove (Buckinghamshire), for the half of the year due at Michaelmas 1627.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1627
Extent:
1 booklet

10. Cotton Ch I 5/1

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Cotton Ch I 5/1
Title:
Response of John Milton of Bread Street in Thomas Cotton's case against him concerning a debt
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The response of John Milton of Bread Street (1562-1647), father of the poet of the same name, London, in the case brought against him by Sir Thomas Cotton (1594-1662), 2nd baronet, concerning a debt owed by Thomas’ uncle, John Cotton, for whom Thomas is executor. 1 May 1637.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1637
Extent:
1 volume

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