View source for Andrew Cotton ca.1564-1640

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===[[name::Andrew]] [[name::COTTON]]  ca.[[date of birth::1564]]-[[date of death::1640]]===

====Biographical Note====
Born at [[place of birth::Combermere, Cheshire]], younger son of [[family::Richard Cotton]] and brother of [[family::Dorothy Cotton]]; the Cottons were a gentry family who acquired the [[location::Combermere]] estate after the dissolution of the monasteries. 

====Books==== 
Andrew Cotton’s probate inventory lists “his books”, valued at [[monetary value::£20]], from a total estate valued at [[monetary value::£330]].  In his will, he directed that all his [[language::Latin]] books be [[bequest::given]] to his [[beneficiary::cousin]] [[family::Thomas Cotton]], and his large [[language::English]] Bible to Thomas’s new [[beneficiary::cousin-in-law|wife]] [[family::Frances Cotton|Frances]], “in confidence that she will daily bestow some time in reading and serious meditating thereon”.  The fate of any other books is not specified but some may have passed to [[subsequent owner::Dorothy Cotton|Dorothy]], who was named as his executor.  Her probate inventory lists “her books” valued at [[monetary value::£3 6s 8d]], from a total estate valued at [[monetary value::£374]].  Her will directed that “all my [[language::English]] books, which I have usually kept in my new cupboard” be [[bequest::given]] to her [[beneficiary::cousin]] [[family::William Massie]], although a number of specific titles were to go to her [[beneficiary::cousin]] [[crossreference::George Mainwaring]] (“Mr Perkins works in 3 volumes, Mr Grantam’s works, the Doctrine of the gospel, two of Dr Preston’s books and Mr Balls treatise of faith”).

====Sources====
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*Pixton, P. ''Wrenbury wills and inventories 1542-1661'', 2009, nos. 111, 122.
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