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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870. — John Shaqi

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.Edwards, Edward

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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.

Name: Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
Author: Edwards, Edward

Edwards, Edward

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 |                 Thomas COTTON = Eleanor Knightley.                  |
 |          (Lord of Conington). |                                     |
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 |                 Thomas COTTON = Jane Paris.                         |
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 |                 Thomas COTTON = Lucy Harney.                        |
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 |                 Thomas COTTON = Elizabeth Shirley.                  |
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 |                    SIR ROBERT (BRUCE) COTTON,                       |
 |           Knight and Bart., Lord of Conington, &c., and             |
 |              FOUNDER OF THE COTTONIAN LIBRARY (Born                 |
 |                     1570; Died 6 May, 1631).[3]                     |
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  [From the COTTON ROLL XIV, 6 [by SEGAR, CAMDEN, and ST. GEORGE];
    compared with MS. Hark 807, fol. 95, and with MS. LANSD., 863,
    containing the heraldic Collections of R. ST. GEORGE, Norroy, Vol.
    III, fol. 82 verso.]

  [For the continuation of the COTTON PEDIGREE, showing (1) the descent
    from Sir Robert of the subsequent possessors of the COTTONIAN
    LIBRARY, up to the date of the gift to the Nation made by Sir John
    COTTON, and (2) the relationship of the Cottonian Trustees of the
    British Museum, see the concluding pages of the present Chapter.]

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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.

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