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    Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (22 January 1570/71 – 6 May 1631) of Conington Hall in the parish of Conington in Huntingdonshire, England, was a...
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    The Cotton or Cottonian library is a collection of manuscripts that came into the hands of the antiquarian and bibliophile Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631)...
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  • manuscripts by Robert Bruce Cotton Cotton (album) Cotton (series), a video game series Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams, the first game in the series Cotton Hill...
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  • in 1731, and a few are kept in other libraries and collections. Robert Bruce Cotton organized his library in a room 26 feet (7.9 m) long by six feet...
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    John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont, Thomas Coryat, John Selden, Robert Bruce Cotton, Richard Carew, Richard Martin, and William Strachey. A popular tradition...
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    1963, when the first volume of her "extravagant biography" of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published (the second volume is unpublished). Two volumes of...
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  • Bannerets was a French knighthood mentioned in a biography of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (1570-1631) by Thomas Smith.[not specific enough to...
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    were catalogued as early as 1628, when, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, John Selden compiled a catalogue: Marmora Arundeliana with the assistance...
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    matters of antiquarian interest. Members included William Camden, Sir Robert Cotton, John Stow, William Lambarde, Richard Carew and others. This body existed...
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  • collectors and scholars included Laurence Nowell, Matthew Parker, Robert Bruce Cotton and Humfrey Wanley. Old English dictionaries and references were...
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    what he may do", in his De iure majestatis. Robert Bruce Cotton quoted Bodin on the value of money; Robert Burton on politics in the Anatomy of Melancholy...
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    John Carter Brown Boudewijn Büch Anthony Collins George Cosmatos Robert Bruce Cotton Jules Desnoyers Joseph W. Drexel Alexandre Dumas, père Umberto Eco...
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  • The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the...
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  • British monarchs, was destroyed by fire in 1698. The Cotton library owned by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was partly destroyed in a house fire in 1731 resulting...
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    without exception".: 122  Also, possibly inspiring a trope, Sir Robert Bruce Cotton organized his library with the placement of busts of ancient Romans...
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  • poet and Dean of St Paul's (born 1572) May 6 – Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary and founder of Cotton Library (born 1570) May 25 – Samuel Harsnett...
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    collection.r. In the 1960s she worked on the coins in the collection of Robert Bruce Cotton, in collaboration with Michael Dolley and Christopher Blunt. It was...
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    Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (1571–1631) Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet (1594–1662) Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet (1621–1702) Sir John Cotton, 4th...
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    the possession of Robert Bruce Cotton, the famous English antiquary, at which point it was rebound, with his arms on the cover. Cotton lent the manuscript...
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  • among the manuscripts collected by the early 17th-century antiquary Robert Bruce Cotton, now conserved in the British Library in London. Geoffrey of Wells...
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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (category Cotton Library)
    academic circles as Cotton Nero A.x., following a naming system used by one of its owners, the 16th century Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, a collector of Medieval...
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  • Cotterill (born 1952), author and cartoonist Charles Cotton (1630–1687), poet and writer Robert Bruce Cotton (1570/1571 – 1631), antiquary and political writer...
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    designation is "British Library, Cotton Vitellius A.XV" because it was one of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton library in the middle of the...
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  • (1556–1607), clergyman and translator William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet Robert Bruce Cotton (1570–1631), antiquarian Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist...
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    Norfolk in 1604. In 1612, he settled in London near his friend Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. In 1617, he served on a commission to inquire into disputed Irish...
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    and in 1612 he was called to the bar. His earliest patron was Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, the antiquary, who seems to have employed him to copy and summarise...
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    As a result, the trial was dubbed the "Cotton Club" murder trial. Heeding the advice of his attorney Robert Shapiro, Evans refused to testify during...
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  • John Stow James Strangman Thomas Talbot Francis Tate Francis Thynne Robert Bruce Cotton and others petitioned Elizabeth I to establish a national library...
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    Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, KCMG (2 September 1887 – 27 February 1970) was a British diplomat, journalist, author, and secret agent. His 1932...
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  • (BL MS Cotton Vespasian D.8). As its name might suggest, though, it was once the property of the 17th-century antiquarian Sir Robert Bruce Cotton and was...
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