William Cotton (bishop)

William Cotton (died 1621) was an English bishop.

Life

William Cotton was brought up in Finchley, Middlesex.^[1] He graduated M.A. at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1575.^[2] He was Archdeacon of Lewes from 1578 to 1598, when he became Bishop of Exeter.^[3]

He was confrontational in his relationship with the Puritans of his diocese. He took rooted objection to the nomination as Bodley lecturer of John Hazard.^[4] Cotton suspected Hazard of “false doctrine”, of intrusion into congregations that already had preachers, and association with the seventh-day Sabbatarian John Traske, which Hazard denied; George Abbot as Archbishop of Canterbury had licensed Hazard to preach, but Cotton was not satisfied with that.^[5]^[6]

He died in 1621. His sons included William Cotton and Edward Cotton, both of whom became archdeacons of Totnes.

Notes

↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22508
↑ "Cotton, William (CTN568W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=67120
↑ Christopher Hill, Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England (1969 edition), p. 102.
↑ http://users.rcn.com/rwtrask/jtraske.htm

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Early modern	John Sherry Richard Brisley Robert Taylor Edmund Weston Thomas Drant William Coell William Cotton John Mattock Richard Buckenham William Hutchinson Thomas Hook Philip King Nathaniel Hardy Toby Henshaw Joseph Sayer Richard Bowchier James Williamson Edmund Bateman Thomas D'Oyly John Courtail Matthias D'Oyly Edward Raynes Thomas Birch Julius Hare William Otter

Late modern	John Hannah Robert Sutton Theodore Churton (became Archdeacon of Hastings) Henry Southwell, Bishop suffragan of Lewes Hugh Hordern Francis Smythe Lloyd Morrell Peter Booth Max Godden (became Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings)

Hastings (1912–1975)	created from Lewes Theodore Churton (previously Archdeacon of Lewes) Benedict Hoskyns Arthur Upcott Thomas Cook, Bishop suffragan of Lewes Arthur Alston Ernest Reid Guy Mayfield dissolved/merged to Lewes & Hastings

Lewes & Hastings	Max Godden (previously Archdeacon of Lewes) Christopher Luxmoore Hugh Glaisyer Nicholas Reade Philip Jones renamed to Hastings

Hastings (2014–present)	Philip Jones (previously Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings) Stan Tomalin (Acting) Edward Bryant & Nick Cornell (Acting) Edward Dowler

Church of England titles
Preceded by Gervase Babington	Bishop of Exeter 1598–1621	Succeeded by Valentine Carey

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 44167598 LCCN: nr93002954

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