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Charles Cotton PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK: CHARLES COTTON “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK A WEEK: PEOPLE OF Man is man’s foe and destiny. WALDEN — COTTON. CHARLES COTTON HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1630 April 28, Wednesday (Old Style): Charles Cotton was born at Beresford in Staffordshire, a son of Charles Cotton the Elder. The father was a friend of Ben Jonson, John Selden, Sir Henry Wotton, and Izaak Walton. Rather than being sent to university, he would be privately tutored by Ralph Rawson, one of the fellows who had been ejected from Oxford’s Brasenose College in 1648. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Charles Cotton “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1653 Izaak Walton’s THE COMPLEAT ANGLER OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN’S RECREATION. BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING, NOT UNWORTHY THE PERUSAL OF MOST ANGLERS. THE COMPLEAT ANGLER DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Charles Cotton “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1655 Charles Cotton’s friendship with Izaak Walton began at this point. He would be adopted by Walton. Eventually he would place over the door of his upscale fishing shanty near Beresford Hall by the River Dove at Hartington a cipher made up of his and Walton’s initials. He would contribute a dozen chapters of “Instructions how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream” to Walton’s THE COMPLEAT ANGLER. Although he enjoyed trout boiled with beer and horseradish, clearly he was not a subsistence fisherman for he would boast of catching 30, 35, and 40 trout and grayling at a session, and clearly he did not himself do the cooking since this upscale fishing shanty possessed neither a woodpile nor a chimney. Cotton used a wooden rod that we would regard as quite heavy, and a line made of braided horsehair. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT Charles Cotton “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1656 Charles Cotton got married with a cousin, Isabella Hutchinson. LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Charles Cotton HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1658 Having traveled in France and perhaps in Italy, at the age of 28 Charles Cotton succeeded to an estate that had been during his father Charles Cotton the Elder’s lifetime greatly encumbered by lawsuits. He would spend the remainder of his existence self-indulgently in country pursuits at his manor, eating a lot of fish, running out his fortune and dying destitute. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1664 The initial edition of Charles Cotton’s SCARRONIDES; OR VIRGILE TRAVESTIE. A MOCK-POEM. IN IMITATION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF VIRGIL’S ÆNEAS IN ENGLISH BURLESQUE — a publication so gross that it would sell through 15 editions. WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF Charles Cotton “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1667 Publication of Charles Cotton’s previously made translation of THE MORALL PHILOSOPHY OF THE STOICKS from the French of M. Guillaume du Vaix. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Charles Cotton HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1670 Charles Cotton’s wife Isabella Hutchinson Cotton died. His VOYAGE TO IRELAND IN BURLESQUE and his THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE DUKE D’ESPERNON, THE GREAT FAVOURITE OF FRANCE Englished from the French of G. Girard. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1671 Charles Cotton had a stone fishing cottage constructed in a pleasant vale by the River Dove near his residence at Beresford Hall, Harington. Over its door was positioned a cipher made up of his and Izaak Walton’s initials. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Charles Cotton HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1674 The initial edition of THE COMPLEAT GAMESTER; OR INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO PLAY AT BILLIARDS, TRUCKS, BOWLS, AND CHESS; TOGETHER WITH ALL MANNER OF USUAL AND MOST GENTELE GAMES, EITHER ON CARDS OR DICE, TO WHICH IS ADDED THE ART AND MYSTERIES OF RIDING, RACING, ARCHERY, AND COCK-FIGHTING (London: Printed by A.M. for R. Cullen, and to be sold by Henry Brome, at the Gun at the West End of St. Paul’s), which is attributed to Charles Cotton (material by others would be added for the 1709 and 1725 editions; in 1750 this reference would be superceded by Edmond Hoyle’s MR. HOYLE’S GAMES COMPLETE). In this year, also, Cotton authored THE FAIR ONE OF TUNIS, and translated Pierre Corneille’s HORACE as well as THE COMMENTARIES OF BLAISE DE MONTLUC. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1675 Charles Cotton’s THE PLANTER’S MANUAL; BEING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE RAISING, PLANTING, AND CULTIVATING ALL SORTS OF FRUIT TREES, WHETHER STONE-FRUITS OR PEPIN-FRUITS, WITH THEIR NATURES AND SEASONS. VERY USEFUL FOR SUCH AS ARE CURIOUS IN PLANTING AND GRAFTING ...(London: Printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun in St. Paul’s churchyard), and in addition BURLESQUE UPON BURLESQUE; OR, THE SCOFFER SCOFF’D, BEING SOME OF LUCIAN’S DIALOGUES NEWLY PUT INTO ENGLISH FUSTIAN, FOR THE CONSOLATION OF THOSE WHO HAD RATHER LAUGH AND BE MERRY, THAN BE MERRY AND WISE. He remarried, with the dowager Countess of Ardglass (although his bride would bring with her a jointure of £1500 a year, he would find himself entirely without access to this). HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1676 Charles Cotton provided a lengthy Part II for Izaak Walton’s THE COMPLEAT ANGLER OR THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN’S RECREATION. BEING A DISCOURSE OF FISH AND FISHING, NOT UNWORTHY THE 1 PERUSAL OF MOST ANGLERS. 1. Unfortunately, all I can offer you electronically is the original Walton edition, lacking the Part II supplied in this year by Cotton: THE COMPLEAT ANGLER HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1681 Charles Cotton’s The WONDERS OF THE PEAKE (London: Printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun in St. Paul’s Churchyard). HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1685 In this year and the following one, the initial edition of Charles Cotton’s THE ESSAYS OF MICHAEL SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE, IN THREE BOOKS. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S LIFE. MADE ENGLISH BY CHARLES COTTON, ESQ. (London: Printed for T. Basset at the George in Fleet Street, and M. Gilliflower and W. Hensman in Westminster Hall). HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1687 February 16, Wednesday (1686, Old Style): The body of Charles Cotton was interred at St James’s Church in Piccadilly, London. Since he had died insolvent, his estates would be seized by creditors. Eventually a very nice plaque would be placed in the central vestibule under the tower by “The Fly Fishers Club” (although this plaque is now obscured by a partition). HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1689 POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. WRITTEN BY CHARLES COTTON, ESQ. (London: Printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet Street; Will. Hensman and Tho. Fox in Westminster, Hall). HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK 1810 Alexander Chalmers’s THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL, BY DR.SAMUEL JOHNSON: AND THE MOST APPROVED TRANSLATIONS, a revised and expanded version of Dr. Johnson’s 1779-1781 LIVES OF THE POETS, began to come across the London presses of C. Wittingham. It would amount to 21 volumes and the printing would require until 1814 to be complete. According to the Preface, this massive thingie was “a work professing to be a Body of the Standard English Poets”2: 2. When the massive collection would come finally to be reviewed in July 1814, the reviewer would, on the basis of Chalmers’s selection of poems and poets, broadly denounce this editor as incompetent. HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK PERUSE VOLUME I PERUSE VOLUME III PERUSE VOLUME IV PERUSE VOLUME V PERUSE VOLUME VI PERUSE VOLUME VII PERUSE VOLUME VIII PERUSE VOLUME IX PERUSE VOLUME X PERUSE VOLUME XI PERUSE VOLUME XII PERUSE VOLUME XIII PERUSE VOLUME XIV PERUSE VOLUME XV PERUSE VOLUME XVI PERUSE VOLUME XVII PERUSE VOLUME XVIII PERUSE VOLUME XIX PERUSE VOLUME XX PERUSE VOLUME XXI HDT WHAT? INDEX CHARLES COTTON CHARLES COTTON PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK WALDEN: Breed’s hut was standing only a dozen years ago, though it had long been unoccupied. It was about the size of mine. It was set on fire by mischievous boys, one Election night, if I do not mistake.
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