James Whitelocke
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Sir James Whitelocke SL was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1610 and 1622.
Sir James Whitelocke
Fawley Court, Buckinghamshire
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet of Conington Hall in the parish of Conington in Huntingdonshire, England, was a Member of Parliament and an antiquarian who founded the Cotton library.
James Whitelocke
…contemporaries at Oxford with whom he formed lasting friendships were William Laud, Humphrey May, and Ralph Winwood. In London he moved in the circle of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, and about in 1600 he joined the Society of Antiquaries. He pursued his professional studies first at New Inn, afterwards at the Middle Temple, where…
Portrait of Robert Cotton, commissioned 1626 and attributed to Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen
A bust of Cotton by Louis-François Roubiliac in the British Museum
Robert Cotton in 1629, the year that he was forced to close the Cotton library by Charles I because the content within the library was believed to be harmful to the interests of the Royalists
Cotton Nero A.x