Life
William Cotton was brought up in Finchley, Middlesex. He graduated M.A. at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1575. He was Archdeacon of Lewes from 1578 to 1598, when became Bishop of Exeter.
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. 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.
He died in 1621. His sons included William Cotton and Edward Cotton, both of whom became archdeacons of Totnes.
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