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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. 1657
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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.
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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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