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tliree little half-sisters. On Friday, 1 1 June, i
a proclamation for his arrest on a charge of
high treason was issued. The next day
he gave himself up at the Earl of South-
ampton's London house, and was eventually
sent to the Tower, where he still was in the
following January. The ' Cal. Ancaster
MSS.' should be consulted for details of the
stir about ' Balaam's Asse ' and the hollowed
apple containing a Latin letter mysteriously
found at Whitehall 5 Nov., 1613. Was John
Cotton ever brought to trial ? and when
and where did he die ?
Among those who gave evidence against him was John Copley (born at Louvain, 1577), fourth son of Sir Thomas Copley of Gatton, and ordained priest abroad. He had been George Cotton's chaplain at Warbleton, but about a year after George Cotton's death apostatized, and two years later published a book giving his reasons for this step. He became Vicar of Bethersden, Kent, 18 Oct., 1612, and Rector of Pluckley in 1616, and married Martha Moon. For further details of his history see Archceologia Cantiana, xvi. 87.
3. The third son, George, knighted 23 July, 1603, was convicted at the Newgate Sessions before the Lord Chief Justice, 29 Nov., 1613, of being a recusant and refusing to take the oath of allegiance. He confessed to having resided in the parish of St. Martin- in-the-Fields for about twenty-five years without having been inside the parish church, and during that period he had only once attended a Protestant service, and that at Westminster. He was committed to the King's Bench Prison, where he died soon afterwards. He married Cassandra, daughter of Henry Mac Williams, Esq., and Mary (nee Hill) his wife, widow of Sir John Cheke (see Strype's ' Cheke,' p. 134). Mrs. Cassandra Cotton was baptized at St. Martin-in-the -Fields 5 Nov., 1600. Sir George Cotton left issue, but I have been unable to find anything about them.
Richard, John, and Sir George Cotton had at least five sisters.
(a) The eldest, Mary, married in or before 1577, as MB. EVEKITT has pointed out at the second reference, John Caryll or Carrell of Warnham, Sussex, knighted 21 Aug., 1591. She was buried at Warnham 21 June, 1601. The Carrells, like the Cottons, were recusants.
(6) Jane married William Owen of God- stow, Oxfordshire.
(c) Elizabeth married Samuel Lone of Sevenoaks, Kent, a recusant, and had issue, also recusants.
(d and e) Katharine and Barbara are
mentioned by ME. EVERITT at the second
reference. JOHN B. WAINT: WRIGHT..
ENGLANDS PARNASSUS,' 1600.
(See 10 S. ix. 341, 401 ; x. 4, 84, 182, 262,
362, 444 ; xi. 4, 123, 204, 283.)
' Autumnus,' p. 431. The wearied nights approached on a pace.
' Ind. to Mir. for Mag.,'st. 2, ed. 1575, (signed) J. H., ' Mir. of Mag.'
' Of Proteus,' p. 434. Proteus is shepheard of the seas of yore.
' Faerie Queene,' III. viii. 30, (signed) Idem,, viz. Spenser.
'Of Phoabus,' p. 435. The golden ofspring of Latona pure.
Virgil's Gnat,' 11. 13-15, (signed) Edm.. Spencer.
' Descriptions,' &c., p. 461. Starres fall to fetch fresh light, &c.
' Unfortunate Traveller,' (signed) T. Nash. The Nashe entries in ' E.P.' were traced by Mr. R. B. McKerrow, not by me ; but I give them here because they are not recorded elsewhere.
'Descriptions,' &c., p. 461. Her lookes were like beames, &c.
Ed. Spenser's 'Colin Clout,' 11. 604-15, (signed) S. Daniell.
' Descriptions,' &c., p. 472. Her iron,' necke, her alablaster breast.
' Faerie Queene,' VI. viii. 42, (signed) Edm.. Spen.
' Love,' p. 497. .... As when might ie Macedon had wonne.
G. Chapman's ' Ovid's Banquet of the Sense,' (signed) Edm. Spencer.
' Feare,' p. 498. Like as a hinde, forth singled, &c.
' Faerie Queene,' III. vii. 1, (signed) Edm- Spencer.
' Civill Warres,' p. 512. Even like to Rheine, which in his birth, &c.
' Civil Wars,' I. 17-18, ed. 1595 only, (signed) Sam. Daniell.
' Of Victorie,' p. 522.
As when a troupe of harvest thrifty swaines. ' Comp. of Elstred,' (signed) D. Lodge.
Allot assigns the following to "I. Mark- ham," but Collier found it in ' Faerie Queene,' although in making the correction Collier leaves it to be inferred that ' E.P.' i> not in error. Place ' Faerie Queene ' before Collier's reference, and erase " Ibid." :
' Joy,' p. 528.
Like as a ship, with dreadfull storme, &c. VI. iv. 1.
No heading, p. 539.
Faire roome, the presence of sweet beauties pride. 'Unfortunate Traveller,'^ (signed) Th. Nashe.
No heading, p. 540, On the other side a pleasant grove.
'Faerie Queene,' II. v. 31, (signed) Ed.. Spencer.
