1 62 Cottons Death. 



any, I will communicate with you. I 

 must thank you very much for the beauti- 

 ful plate of Pike Pool you sent me. 



" Yours truly, 

 (Signed) " P. BERESFORD HOPE." 



The plate Mr. Beresford Hope refers 

 to is one of Pike Pool, by Mr. Geo. 

 Bankart, which appears in the " Lea and 

 Dove " edition of the Angler. 



Cotton is supposed to have died of a 

 fever on February i3th, 1687, only four 

 years after the death of his old friend 

 Walton. By an act of administration of 

 his effects upon his decease, dated Septem- 

 ber 1 2th, 1687, it appears his principal 

 creditrix was Elizabeth Bludworth, and he 

 is described as of the parish of St. James, 

 Westminster. His son, Beresford Cotton, 

 commanded a company in a regiment of 

 foot raised by the Earl of Derby for the 

 service of King William ; one of his 

 daughters married Dr. Geo. Stanhope, 

 Dean of Canterbury. 



