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Cotgrave, Randle (fl. 1587-1630?), lexicographer

John Leigh

in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

ISBN: 9780198614128
Published online September 2004 | | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/6389
Cotgrave, Randle (fl. 1587-1630?), lexicographer

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Cotgrave, Randle (fl. 1587-1630?), lexicographer, was the son of Randle Cotgrave (c.1535-1592), of Christleton, notary public, minor canon in Chester Cathedral, and registrar to the bishop of Chester, and Ellen Taylor (d. 1591) of Chester. Randle was the second son of five children-six, if George Cotgrave (d. 1608), not recorded ...

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