relation to foreign affairs and in praise of warlike exercises, 79; is accused of communicating papers and secrets of State to the Spanish Ambassador, 79; proceedings taken against him thereupon, 80 _seqq._ 1616, June. Is liberated, 83; and receives a pardon under the Great Seal, _ib._; his conduct and his literary labours in retirement, 84 _seqq._; instances of the liberality with which he communicates his knowledge and his manuscripts, 87, 88. 1616–23. His share in the labours which resulted in the ‘Petition of Right,’ 89. 1624, April. His _Remonstrance of the Treaties of Amity and Marriage with Austria and Spain_ 91; his advice on the prosecution of the Spanish Ambassadors, and Report addressed to Buckingham, 92. 1625, August. Speech ascribed to him in the Parliament held at Oxford, 93; its eulogy on the political conduct of Somerset, 96; the friendly intercourse between Cotton and Sir Symonds d’Ewes, 97 _seqq._. 1626. The scene at Cotton House on occasion of the Coronation of Charles I, 99; his conduct in 1626 and subsequent years, as an unofficial adviser of the Crown, 101 _seqq._; his opinions on Coinage, and on the management of the Royal Mint, 103 _seqq._ 1628, Jan. Appears at the Privy Council Board, and delivers a Discourse advising the immediate calling of a Parliament, 106; but has no seat in that Parliament, _ib._ 1629, November. Is accused of circulating a _Proposition to bridle Parliaments_, written by Sir Robert Dudley, 107 _seqq._; History of that production, 110 _seqq._; Sir Robert’s Library is placed under seal, and remains so until his death, 107, 117, _seqq._; intercourse between Ben Jonson and Cotton, 116. 1630. Decline of Cotton’s health, and his correspondence with Dr. Frodsham, 118; his visit to Amphyllis Ferrers, and the plot to obtain money from him, 120 _seqq._; the proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber thereon, _ib._ 1631. Illness, 123; Conferences with Dr. Oldisworth and with Bishop Williams, 124; death, 125. Cotton, Sir Thomas, Bart., 125, 127, 129, 131, 161 Cotton, Thomas, 49, 118 Cotton, William, 49, 53 _Cottoni Posthuma_, 91 _seqq._ and _foot-note_ Courten, Peter, 250 Courten, Sir Peter, 254 Courten, Sir William, Bart., 251, 256, 260, 267 Courten, William (I), 249 Courten, William (II), 257