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but it is said that he was never married, and that he died at 

 Nottingham. In 1694 Beresford Cotton published his father's 

 translation of the Memoirs of the Sieur de Pontis, which has been 

 already noticed, and which he dedicated to the Duke of Ormond. 

 He states that the work was translated by the particular choice 

 and recommendation of his Grace's illustrious grandfather, and 

 says " The Sieur de Pontis therefore for himself, and I for the 

 translator, my deceased father, beg leave to plead succession and 

 descent." 6 



Olive Cotton, the eldest daughter of Charles Cotton, married early 

 in 1690, Dr George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury, and died in 

 June 1707, having had a son, George Stanhope, who was a 

 captain in the army, and died unmarried in 1725 ; and five 

 daughters, Katherine, Mary, Jane, Charlotte, and Elizabeth. 

 Mary, the eldest daughter of Dr Stanhope by Olive Cotton, 

 married William Burnet, Governor of New York, eldest son of 

 the celebrated Dr Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, by whom she had 

 a son, Gilbert Burnet, who was a minor in May 1727, and died 

 about the year 1770, leaving Thomas Burnet his only child, who 

 was then an apothecary in John Street, Clerkenwell. Mrs 

 Burnet, who died in 1714, is said to have been distinguished for 

 her beauty, wit, good - humour, and various accomplishments. 

 The " ruling passion " was as strongly exhibited by her as by 

 Pope's Narcissa ; for on her attendants rubbing her temples with 

 Hungary water, in her dying moments, she desired them to desist, 

 lest it " should make her hair grey " ! Charlotte, the fourth 

 daughter of Dr Stanhope, married the Rev. Dr Henry Archer, 

 Rector of Feversham, in Kent, and died in 1 744. She left issue, 

 and her present representative is Robert Selby, Esq., of Kings- 

 bury, in Middlesex. Katherine, Jane, and Elizabeth, the other 

 daughters of Dr Stanhope, appear to have died unmarried before 

 May 1727. 



Dr Stanhope married a second time, and died in March 

 1728. His will, which is dated on the 2d of May 1727, and 

 was proved at Doctors' Commons on the 4th of May 1728, 

 contains some notices of his first wife and of her family. He 

 desired that his body should be buried at Lewisham, near his late 

 dear wife Olivia : he confirmed the articles made on the soth of 

 November 1709, on his marriage with his then wife Anne : he 

 stated that one-fourth part of the Rectory of Spoondon, in the 

 county of Derby, was vested in him on his marriage with his 



6 Kippis' Biographia Britannica, vol. iii p. 39. 



