Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Cotton, Edward (1)
Cotton, Edward s. William, bishop of Exeter. Christ Church, matric. 20 March, 1606-7, aged 18, B.A. 14 Oct., 1609; fellow Exeter Coll., 1610-12, M.A. 2 July, 1612, of the Middle Temple 1606, rector of Duloe, Cornwall, 15 July, 1611 (until sequestered 1 May, 1647), and of St. Peter Tavy 1611, canon of Exeter Cathedral 1611, chancellor 1613, rector of Bridestowe 1614, and of Shobroke, Devon, 1615, archdeacon of Totnes 1622, died 8 Oct., 1647, brother of William 1598. See Add. MS., 15,671; Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus; Boase, 57; & Fasti, i. 347.