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Cotton (17 January 1803) Cotton, sir Robert (compiler; attributed to)Bowyer, William (compiler; more likely)Bowyer, Robert (comp; more likely)Prynne, William (comp.)An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London,
from the reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the
Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each kings reign, and the
several accounts in every Parliament: together with the names and
titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons,
summoned to every of the said Parliaments. Collected by Sir Robert
Cotton Knight and baronet. Revised, rectified in sundry mistakes,
and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several omissions,
and exact tables, both of the special matters, great officers
speakers, nobles, and other persons therein conteined. By William
Prynne Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne. 1657OR
WG may have consulted the manuscript book:
Cotton, sir Robert (compiler; attributed to)Bowyer, William (compiler; more likely)Bowyer, Robert (comp; more likely)Prynne, William (comp.)The Cottonian manuscripts‘An Exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London
from the raigne of King Edward the Second unto King Richard the
Third, of all the Parliam-ts holden in each kings raigne and the
seueral acts in euery Parliament togeather with the names &
titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earles, viscounts, and
barrons sommoned to euery of the sayd Parliam-ts.' between
1618 and
1630
written in England in secretary hand, with engraved
portraits.
OR
The Cottonian manuscripts from Robert Cotton's
Library, transferred to the British Museum in
1757. Now held as the Medieval literary and historical
manuscripts in the Cotton collection, British Library, London [ca.
1150-ca.
1450]
WG's biography of Chaucer cites:
Cotton,
Abridgement of Records, apud Hume, chap. 16 (1:18).
‘a
collection of Mysteries performed at Coventry … Among the Cottonian
manuscripts in
the British Museum' (1:85).
Cottonian MSS,
apud Strutt (1:98).
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