Cotton, Charles, a poet, born in Staffordshire; his poetry was of the burlesque order, and somewhat gross; chiefly famous for his translation of “Montaigne's Essays”; was friend and admirer of Isaak Walton, and wrote a supplement to his “Angler” (1630‒1687).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cotton, Bishop * Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce