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Cotton, Charles, father of the poet, the friend 

 and companion of many of the most emin- j 

 ent of his contemporaries, clxiii ; his 

 character by Lord Clarendon, clxiv n, 



, Charles, the poet, born April 28, 1630 ; 



is supposed to have been educated at 

 Cambridge, clxv ; his affection for his 

 tutor, Mr Ralph Rawson, strongly ex- 

 pressed in the translation of an Ode of 

 Johannes Secundus, clxv ; did not take 

 his degree at either University, clxv ; 

 possessed considerable classic attainments, 

 and an extensive knowledge of modern 

 languages, clxv ; little known of his pur- 

 suits until after the Restoration ; probably 

 went abroad before his twenty-fourth year; 

 many of his poems published after his de- 

 cease, written at an early period of his life, 

 clxvi ; an Elegy upon the death of Henry 

 Lord Hastings, 1649, and a copy of verses 

 prefixed to Edmund Prestwich's translation 

 of the Hippolitus of Seneca in 1651, attri- 

 buted to him, clxvi n. ; verses addressed to 

 him by Sir Aston Cokayne, clxvi, clxvii"; 

 the " Triumphs of Philamore and Amoret," 

 inscribed to him, by Col. Lovelace, clxviii ; 

 is stated by Aubrey, to have relieved Love- 

 lace in his distress, clxviii ; was a zealous 

 Loyalist, and an uncompromising enemy of 

 Cromwell, clxix ; his political opinions 

 strongly expressed in his verses on the 

 execution of James, Earl of Derby, in 

 1651, and in his castigation of Waller, for 

 writing a panegyric on the Protector, 

 about the year 1654, clxix ; neither the 

 name of his father nor of himself, found in 

 connection with any political event during 

 the Commonwealth, clxx ; became one of 

 the intimate friends of Izaak Walton, clxx; 

 married in August 1657, his cousin, Isa- 

 bella, daughter of Sir Thomas Hutchinson ; 

 settlement of the manors of Bentley, Bor- 

 rowashe, and Beresford, and of rectory of 

 Spoondon, made in contemplation of his 

 marriage, clxxi ; lost his father in Decem- 

 ber 1658 J first appeared before the public 

 as an author on the Restoration of Charles 

 the Second ; birth of his eldest son Beres- 

 ford ; published a burlesque poem, entitled 

 " Scarronides, or the First Book of Virgil 

 Travestie," in 1664, and prepared for the 

 press a translation of "The Moral Philo- 

 sophy of the Stoics," from the French of 

 Du Vaix, published in 1667, clxxii ; an Act 

 passed in 1665, to enable him to sell part 

 of his estates, for the payment of his debts; 

 translated Corneille's Tragedy of Horace 

 for the amusement of his wife's sister, Miss 

 Stanhope Hutchinson; the dedication dated 

 7th November 1665 ; pub.ished in 1671 ; 

 wrote some verses on the poems of his 

 friend, Alexander Brome, about the year 

 1667, clxxii ; his dislike at being obliged to 

 live in the country, and at being separated 

 from his literary friends, frequently ex- 

 pressed in his works, clxxiii ; his " Voyage 

 to Ireland in Burlesque," composed about 

 the year 1670 or 1671 ; extracts therefrom, 



descriptive of his history, situation, and 

 feelings, clxxiv, clxxv ; allusions made to 

 himself in his Epistle to Sir Clifford Clifton, 

 clxxvi; published a new edition of his 

 "Virgil Travestie," in 1670; critical re- 

 marks thereupon, clxxvi ; some lines in 

 that work said to have given such offence 

 to a female relative, whose name he had 

 used in allusion to her ruff, that she 

 changed her intention of leaving him her 

 fortune ; this anecdote extremely doubtful, 

 clxxvii ; published a translation of Gerard's 

 History of the Life of the Duke of Esper- 

 non, dedicated to Dr Gilbert Sheldon, 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1670, clxxviii; 

 his motives for inscribing it to that prelate, 

 as explained in a letter to the archbishop, 

 30th Oct. 1669, clxxviii ; extracts from the 

 preface, clxxviii, et seq. ; translated the 

 Commentaries of De Montluc, Marshal of 

 France, between 1670 and 1674, clxxx ; 

 alluded to in a letter from Walton to Lord 

 Chesterfield, in Feb. 1673, Ixxx ; his liter- 

 ary labours attended with little success, 

 clxxx ; authorship of " The Compleat 

 Gamester," published in 1674, attributed 

 to him, c xxxi ; published "The Fair One 

 of Tunis," in 1674, clxxxi ; printed a work 

 entitled " Burlesque upon Burlesque," in 

 1675, and "The Planter's Manual," in same 

 year, clxxxiii ; death of first wife, and issue 

 by her, clxxxiv; remarried Mary, daughter 

 of Sir W. Russell, before 1675, clxxxiv ; ap- 

 plication made to Parliament for authority 

 to sell part of his estates, for payment 

 of his debts, clxxxiv; was applied to by 

 Walton to write a treatise on Fly-Fishing, 

 Ixxxv ; treatise thereon written in ten day^, 

 Feb. '1676, Ixxxvi, clxxxv; published "The 

 Wonders of the Peak,'' in 1681, clxxxvi ; 

 translation of Montaigne's Essays, printed 

 in 1685, considered to be his most im- 

 portant contribution to English literature, 

 clxxxvii ; complimentary letter to him from 

 George, Marquis of Halifax, to whom that 

 work was dedicated, clxxxvii ; said to 

 have sold Beresford, in 1681, clxxxviii ; 

 a ring bequeathed to him by Walton, in 

 1683, cii ; was engaged in translating the 

 Memoirs of the Sieur de Pontis, at his 

 death, in Feb. 1687, clxxxviii ; adminis- 

 tration of his effects granted, Sep. 12, 1687, 

 clxxxviii ; an imperfect edition of his works 

 published soon after decease, clxxxviii ; 

 the most valuable and interesting facts 

 relative to his feelings and character, ob- 

 tained from this volume, clxxxix ; extracts 

 therefrom, cxci ; his " Ode to Hope," 

 cxciii; his poem entitled " Contentation," 

 cxcv; anecdotes relative to his pecuniary 

 embarrassments, cxcvii ; his literary merits 

 not sufficiently appreciated at the present 

 day, cxcvii ; the idea that he was an author 

 by profession, shown to be erroneous, 

 cxcviii ; his conduct and character, cxcviii ; 

 his portrait in possession of John Beres- 

 ford, Esq., of Ashbourn, cxcix ; account of 

 his children and present representatives, 



