THE LIFE OF CHARLES COTTON. 



(Abridged from that written by SIR JOHN HAWKINS.) 



HARLES COTTON, ESQ., was descended from 

 an honourable family of the town and county of 

 Southampton. His grandfather was Sir George 

 Cotton, Knt., and his grandmother Cassandra, 

 the heiress of a family named Mac Williams ; the issue of 

 their marriage were a daughter named Cassandra, who died 

 unmarried, and a son named Charles, who settling at Oving- 

 den in the county of Sussex, married Olive, the daughter of 

 Sir John Stanhope, of Elvaston in the county of Derby, 

 Knt., 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. 

 He was born on the 28th day of April, 1630, and having, 



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