Letter 0393

Robert Cotton, 5th Baronet to Hans Sloane – September 5, 1694


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Date: September 5, 1694
Author: Robert Cotton, 5th Baronet
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 183-184



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Cotton received a letter from Mr Broughton, which is addressed to Dr Rose. Cotton sent the letter to Mrs Rose. He thanks Sloane for his services and advice. Sir Robert Cotton, 5th Baronet (1669-1749) was a Jacobite and involved in the 1715 rebellion. He lived in exile in France before returning to England (Stuart Handley, ‘Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce, first baronet (1571–1631)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6425, accessed 23 July 2014]; Sir Robert Cotton, fifth baronet (1669–1749): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6424).




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