Life of CJiarles Cotton. 149 



CHARLES COTTON AND His PART OF 

 "THE COMPLEAT ANGLER." 



It was not until the fifth edition of 

 Walton's book appeared that his friend 

 Cotton's " Instructions How to Angle for 

 a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream " 

 were added to it. 



Charles Cotton, Oldys tells us, was 

 descended of a worthy and honourable 

 family, and was the grandson of Sir George 

 Cotton, Knight, who died in 1613, leaving 

 issue by Cassandra MacWilliam, his wife, 

 two children, Charles and Cassandra. 

 The latter died unmarried before 1649. 

 Charles Cotton, the father of the author 

 of the second part of The Compkat Angler, 

 lived at one time at Ovingden, or Oving- 

 dean, in the county of Sussex. He 

 married Olive, the daughter of Sir John 

 Stanhope, of Elvaston, in Derbyshire, by 

 his first wife, Olive, daughter and heiress 

 of Edward Beresford, of Beresford and 

 Enson, in Staffordshire, and of Bentley, in 

 the county of Derby. He succeeded to 

 those estates in her right, and settled at 

 Beresford. This lady, Olive Stanhope, 

 died in 1614, aged about thirty-three 

 years ; and Drayton, the poet, among his 

 elegies, has one in her commendation. 

 Her daughter, named likewise Olive, 



