1727, and was proved at Doctors' Commons, on the 4th of May, 1728, contains some notices of his first wife and of her family. He desired that his body should be buried at Lewisham, near his late dear wife Olivia: he confirmed the articles made on the 30th of November, 1709, on his marriage with his then wife Anne: he stated that one fourth part of the Rectory of Spoondon, in the county of Derby, was vested in him on his marriage with his former wife, Olivia, daughter of Charles Cotton, Esq.; and that one other fourth part had been purchased by him of Katherine, her sister, now Lady Lucy. He bequeathed to his daughter, Charlotte Archer, "the mourning gold ring with which her dear mother was married, and the cornelian ring which she, in her life time, and I, since her death, did constantly wear, and with it also the pictures of her mother, and of her aunt, the Lady Lucy, in crayons; the pictures of her brother George, and her sister Elizabeth, in oil colours." Katherine, the second daughter of Charles Cotton, married Sir Berkeley Lucy, Bart. and died in June 1740, leaving an only child Mary, who married the Honorable Charles Compton, a younger son of George, fourth Earl of Northampton, from whom the present Marquess of Northampton is descended. Jane Cotton, the third daughter, became the wife of Beaumont Parkyns, of Sutton Bonington, in Nottinghamshire, Esq. by whom she had eight children. They all died young, and apparently before their mother, who died in January, 1738, aged seventy two. Of Mary Cotton, the poet's youngest daughter, all which can be said is, that she married Augustine Armstrong, of the parish of St. George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, and had by him two children, Charles and Katherine, to whom Dr. Stanhope, in his will, left legacies of £20 each. In a codicil to his will, dated 8th January, 1727-8, Dr. Stanhope bequeathed £200 to "my poor niece Catherine, daughter of Augustine Armstrong, of the parish of St. George the Martyr, near Ormond Street, which was born to him by my sister-in-law, formerly Mrs. Mary Cotton; and I do also order that the legacy already left her in the said will, be added to that which I have left to her brother Charles." The descendants of Mary Cotton have not been traced. PEDIGREE OF COTTON. [Compiled from the Heralds' Visitations of Stafford and Derby, and other Sources.] CORDELL, dau. and co-heir of RICHARD ALLINGTON, esq. 1st wife. SIR JOHN STANHOPE, of Shelton, KATHERINE, daughter of THOMAS III. PEDIGREE OF KEN. [Compiled from the Herald's Visitation of London, in 1634, marked C 24, in the College of Arms; Parish Registers, Wills, and other Authorities.] WILLIAM KEN, of Somersetshire. MATTHEW KEN, of London ELIZABETH, daughter of RICHARD BARRET, He was probably the person who is thus mentioned in Smith's Catalogue of Persons deceased: (Addit. MS. 886, in Brit. Mus.) "April 30, 1642, the wife of ROWLAND HUGHES, Attorney, died." |