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former wife, Olivia, daughter of Charles Cotton, Esq. ; and that 

 one other fourth part had been purchased by him of Katherine, 

 her sister, now Lady Lucy. He bequeathed to his daughter, 

 Charlotte Archer, " the mourning gold ring with which her dear 

 mother was married, and the cornelian ring which she, in her life- 

 time, and I, since her death, did constantly wear, and with it also 

 the pictures of her mother, and of her aunt, the Lady Lucy, in 

 crayons ; the pictures of her brother George, and her sister 

 Elizabeth, in oil colours." 



Katherine, the second daughter of Charles Cotton, married 

 Sir Berkeley Lucy, Bart., and died in June 1740, leaving an only 

 child Mary, who married the Honorable Charles Compton, a 

 younger son of George, fourth Earl of Northampton, from whom 

 the present Marquess of Northampton is descended. 



Jane Cotton, the third daughter, became the wife of Beaumont 

 Parky ns, of Sutton Bonington, in Nottinghamshire, Esq., by whom 

 she had eight children. They all died young, and apparently 

 before their mother, who died in January 1738, aged seventy-two. 



Of Mary Cotton, the poet's youngest daughter, all which can 

 be said is, that she married Augustine Armstrong, of the parish of 

 St George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, and had by him two children, 

 Charles and Katherine, to whom Dr Stanhope, in his will, left 

 legacies of ,20 each. In a codicil to his will, dated 8th January 

 1727-8, Dr Stanhope bequeathed .200 to "my poor niece 

 Catherine, daughter of Augustine Armstrong, of the parish of St 

 George the Martyr, near Ormond Street, which was born to him 

 by my sister-in-law, formerly Mrs Mary Cotton ; and I do also 

 order that the legacy already left her in the said will, be added to 

 that which I have left to her brother Charles." The descendants 

 of Mary Cotton have not been traced. 



