Robert Cotton, Of the Antiquity, Etymology, and Privilege of Towns (1600)

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Date
23 June 16000
Book title
A collection of curious discourses, written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities
Publication place
Oxford
Transcription source
Hathitrust
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
  • antiquities
  • etymology
Summary
An essay written for the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin
explanations: English
Extent
174-77
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: For the etymology, we may consider the usual Latin, British, Saxon, and English names for Town, as Oppidum, Burgus, vicus, villa, pagus, that are used in our country storys or records.
ESTC
T112502