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CHARLES COTTON, Esq.* 



CHARLES COTTON, Esq. was descended from 

 an honourable family, of the town and county of 

 Southampton. His grandfather was Sir George 

 Cotton , Knight; and his grandmother, Cassandra 

 the heiress of a family named Mac Williams: the 

 issue of their marriage were a daughter, named Cas* 

 sandra, who died unmarried; and a son, named 

 Charles , who, settling at Ovingden in the county 

 of Sussex, married Olive, the daughter of Sir John 

 Stanhope, of Elvaston in the county of Derby, 

 Knight, half brother to Philip, the first Earl of 

 Chesterfield, and ancestor of the present Earl of 

 Harrington, and by her had issue CHARLES, the 

 author of the ensuing Dialogues t. 



* It has been thought proper to omit the Letter to tie Editor in the 

 former impression, and to give the Life of Mr. Cotton in another form, 

 retaining nevertheless such facts as are best ascertained, and seem in 

 any degree worthy of credit. 



f The above is the account of Mr. Cotton's descent, as given by 

 Mr. Oldys, in the former edition; but it agrees not in what respects 



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