Is sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 



The Cotton 



Family. 



Walter Cotton. 



William 



Cotton. 



Sir Thomas 

 Cotton. 



Ditto N 



Cajiots, 



Cheveley. 



Sir John 

 Cotton. 



Norfolk, by whom he had two sons, Thomas, who died without 

 issue, and Walter, heir to his brother, who died May 14, 1445, 

 and was buried at Landwade. 



His eldest son, William Cotton, of Landwade, was Vice- 

 Chamberlain to Henry VI., and also Keeper of the Wardrobe, 

 Receiver of the Queen Consort, and Collector for the Duchy of 

 Lancaster. He was killed at the battle of St. Alban's, fighting on 

 the side of Henry VL, May 22, 1453, from whom he had a grant 

 of several privileges, and was buried at Landwade. He married 

 Anne, daughter and co-heir of John Abbot, Esq., and had issue 

 six sons and three daughters. 



His son and heir, Sir Thomas Cotton, was sheriff of Cam- 

 bridge and Huntingdon in the sixteenth year of the reign of 

 Edward IV. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Philip 

 Wentworth, of Nettlestead, co. Essex, by whom he had five sons 

 and two daughters, and on his death, July 30, 1499, was succeeded 

 by his eldest son, Robert, who was knighted by Henry \T1. He 

 married, first, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Robert Clere, by whom he 

 had Thomas, who died without heirs, and Anne, heir to her brother, 

 who, being a nun professed in the Abbey of Denny, near Cam- 

 bridge, of the Order of Poor Clares, and therefore incapable 

 of holding property, gave her estate to John Cotton, her half- 

 brother. Sir Robert died July 18, 15 19. At the time of his 

 death, it appears by the escheats of 10 Henry VHL (15 19), 

 he held the manor of Ditton Camois, 300 acres of land, 360 acres 

 of meadow, 5 acres of pasture, 140 acres of wood, there and 

 in Cheveley, of the king by fealty and by the rent of a pair 

 of gilt spurs for all services. He also held the manor of Cheveley 

 with the advowson of the church, of the Earl-Marshal of England, 

 by socage. He also held the manor of Landwade. By his second 

 wife, he had Sir John Cotton, who was Sheriff of Cambridge and 

 Huntingdon in 1549, and again in 1557. He married Isabel, 

 daughter of Sir William Spencer, of Althorpe, co. Northampton, 

 by whom they had eight sons and five daughters, of whom five 



