1. FRANCIS COTTINGTON, esq. fourth son of Philip Cottington, esq. of Godmanston, in the county of Somerset, having held the office of clerk of the council in the reign of King JAMES I. and being secretary to CHARLES, Prince of Wales, was created a BARONET by that monarch on the 16th February, 1623. After the accession of King CHARLES I. Sir Francis Cottington was constituted chancellor and under-treasurer of the Exchequer, and being accredited ambassador to the court of Madrid, for the purpose of negociating a peace, he was elevated to the peerage on the 10th July, 1631, as LORD COTTINGTON, Baron of Hanworth, in the county of Middlesex. His lordship was next commissioned to exercise the important office of lord-treasurer during the king's absence in Scotland, in the 9th CHARLES I. and was constituted master of the wards upon his majesty's return. During the civil wars, Lord Cottington remained faithfully attached to his royal master, and eventually went into exile with King CHARLES II. from which he never returned. His lordship married Anne, daughter of Sir William Meredith, knt. and widow of Sir Robert Brett, by whom he had a son and four daughters, all of whom predeceased bim unmarried. He d. at Valladolid in 1653, when the BARONETCY, together with the BARONY OF COTTINGTON, became EXTINCT, and his estates passed to his nephew, CHARLES COTTINGTON, esq. who had his lordship's remains brought over to England and interred in Westminster Abbey, where he erected a stately monument.

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scended out of Cheshire, where there are two towns of the same denomination; one in the hundred of Northwich, the other in Broxton.

WILLIAM DE COTUN, was father of

SIMON DE COTUN, who lived in the time of EDWARD I. and left a son,

WILLIAM DE COTUN, who married first, Isabel, and secondly, Joan, and was s. by his son,

EDMUND DE COTUN, whose wife's christian name was Catherine. He lived in the time of EDWARD III. and had two sons,

ROBERT, of Coton, near Hanbury, in Staffordshire.
whose name is mentioned in deeds 30 EDWARD,
III. but his line terminated in heirs female,
about the time of HENRY V.
WILLIAM.

The younger son,

WILLIAM COTTON, married, towards the latter end of EDWARD the Third's reign, Agnes, daughter and heir of Walter de Ridware, of Hampstall-Ridware, in the county of Stafford (by Joan, his wife, daughter and heir of Walter Walsheif, and Juliana, his wife, daughter and heir of John Basyng, of Boyslston, in Derbyshire), and thereby acquired the estate of Ki ware and other broad lands, and assumed the Ridware arms, which his descendants continued to bear. He was s. by his son,

JOHN COTTON, of Hampstall-Ridware, who m. Isabel, daughter and heir of William Faulconer, esq. of Thur caston, in the county of Leicester, and s. by his son, SIR RICHARD COTTON, knt. of Ridware. This gen tleman m. Elizabeth, sister and eventually co-heir of Sir Hugh Venables, baron of Kinderton, in Cheshire. and had two sons, viz.

JOHN, who inherited Ridware, living in the 35
HENRY VI. and 2nd EDWARD IV. progenitor of
the Cottons, of Ridware, and the Cottons, of
Bould and Crackmarsh, in the county of Stafford,
WILLIAM.

The younger son,

WILLIAM COTTON, esq. fell at the battle of St. Albans, in the war of the Roses, temp. HENRY VI. Hem. Mary, daughter and heir of Robert de Wesenham, son of Sir Hugh de Wesenham, by Agnes, his wife, sister and heir of Bernard, son of Sir John de Brus, of Conning ton, in the county of Huntingdon, and of Exton, in the county of Rutland. By this marriage he became possessed of those lordships the continuous seat f his posterity. His widow, m. secondly, Sir Thomas Billing, knt. lord chief justice of England, in the reign of EDWARD IV. and thirdly, Thomas Lacy, esq. d Grancestre, near Cambridge. She died 14th March 1499, and was buried on the south side of the altar o the church of St. Margaret, Westminster, by her árs husband. Weaver exhibits the graphical drafts a both their monuments. He is represented in armon with a surcoat of his arms, of the spread eagle, up his knees at prayer, a book before him, and behind group of fifteen children, all mature grown, wheres eight seem to be sons, and the other seven daughters in a scroll over his head, s. hoc. s. m. His eldest s and heir,

THOMAS COTTON, esq. of Connington, served the offic of sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Hunting don, in the 15th HENRY VII. He m. Eleanor, daughte of Richard Knightley, esq. of Fawesley, in Northam tonshire, and had issue,

THOMAS, his heir.
William.

George.
Anthony.
Richard.

Eleanor, m. first, to Edward Pitcher, esq. of
Trumpington, in Cambridgeshire, secondly, to
- Pepys, of Cottenham, and thirdly, to Doctor
Walker, M. D. of Cambridge.

He d. in the 9th of HENRY VIII. and was s. by his elder son,

THOMAS COTTON, esq. of Connington, sheriff of Huntingdon and Cambridge, 1st EDWARD VI. m. Lucy, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Harvey, esq. of Elmstoke, in the county of Lincoln, and was s. by his eldest son,

THOMAS COTTON, esq. of Connington M. P. for the county of Huntingdon, 4 and 5 PHILIP and MARY. This gentleman m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Shirley, esq. of Staunton-Harold, in the county of Leicester, (son of Sir Ralph Shirley, knt. and Joan, tas wife, daughter of Sir Robert Sheffield, knt.) and had issue,

ROBERT, his heir.

Thomas, of Gedding Abbots, in the county of Huntingdon, m. Mary, daughter of Robert Apreece, esq. of Washingly, in the same county, and left a son and heir,

John Cotton, esq. of Gedding, who m. Frances, daughter of John Gifford, esq. of White Ladys, in the county of Stafford, and left an only daughter and heiress,

JANE COTTON, who m. Bazil Fitzherbert, esq. of Norbury and Swinnerton,

Lucy, m. to- Talcarne, esq. of Ashton, in Essex. Dorothy, m. to Maurice Baude, esq. of Somerby, in the county of Lincoln.

Johanna, m. to John Baude, esq. of the same place.

Mr. Cotton m. secondly, Dorothy, daughter of John amworth, esq. of Hawsted, in Leicestershire, and by nat lady bad,

Henry, d. unm. 11th June, 1614.
Ferdinand,

John,

merchants.

1570, at the village of Denton, in the vicinity of the family seat, and after receiving an early education of the first description, was sent to Trinity College, Cambridge. He subsequently devoted himself to literature, and the collecting of those celebrated manuscripts, which have since immortalized his name, under the designation of "THE COTTONIAN LIBRARY." He began this great work in the year 1588, when find

ing his residence at home not altogether adequate to the object he had in view, he came up to London, associated himself with Camden, and became a member of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1603, Mr. Cotton received the honour of knighthood from King JAMES I. being one of those so distinguished immediately before his majesty's coronation, "During this reign, and in the many and various difficulties arising in state points, Sir Robert was looked upon, by common suffrage, one of the best instructed therein; hence, Henry, Earl of Northampton, lord privy seal in 1608, became his familiar and perpetual friend, consulted him in what he publicly delivered, made him his confident, and found a return of wisdom and fidelity." He was, subsequently, often consulted upon public affairs, and was amongst those, who to recruit the treasury, devised the order of hereditary knights, or BARONETS, to which dignity he was himself one of the first gentlemen raised, having been created a BARONET on the 29th June, 1611. In the same reign Sir Robert was twice sent to parliament by the county of Huntingdou, and fully sustained in the senate the high reputation he had attained in literature. He d. on the 6th May, 1631, in his sixty-first year, at his house in Westminster, whence, with solemn pomp, his remains were conveyed to Connington, as appointed by his will, and interred on the south side of the church, under a fair monument, erected by the piety of his wife and son; which lady was Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of William Brocas, esq. of Thedingworth, in the county of Leicester. His only surviving son and heir,

II. SIR THOMAS COTTON, M. P. for the county of Huntingdon, m. first, Margaret, daughter of William, Lord Howard, of Naworth, and by that lady had issue, JOHN, his successor.

Lucy, m. to Sir Philip Wodehouse, bart. of Kimberley, in Norfolk, and had a son,

Sir Thomas Wodehouse, knt. from whom de-
scend the Lords Wodehouse.

Lady Wodehouse d. 26th June, 1684.
Frances.

He m. secondly, Alice, daughter and sole heir of Sir
John Constable, knt. of Dromondby, in the county of
York, and relict of Edmund Anderson, esq. of Ey-
worth, and by her had,

Thomas, who d. at the age of seventeen.
Robert (Sir), of Hatley St. George, in Cambridge-
shire, M. P. for that county, m. Gertrude, second
daughter of Sir William Morrice, of Werington,
in the county of Devon, bart. secretary of state
to CHARLES II. and had an only surviving
daughter and heiress,

Alice Cotton, who m. Robert Trefusis, of Tre-
fusis, in Cornwall, ancestor of the present
Lord Clinton, and conveyed the estate of
Hartley St. George to her husband, from
whom descending to their son, Robert Tre-
fusis, M. P. of Trefusis, it was sold by him
to Thomas Pearce, esq. a commissioner of
the navy.

Philip, of Connington, aged thirty-seven in 1684, m. twice, (his first wife was Frances, daughter

of Sir Toby Tyrell, of Thornton, county of Berks, and widow of Sir John Hewett, bart.) but dying s. p. he bequeathed his estates to his nephew, Thomas, the son of his brother William. William, of Cotton Hall, in the county of Chester, m. Mary, daughter of the Rev. Robert Pulleyn, of Thurleston, in Leicestershire, and had issue, 1. Thomas, of Connington, devisee of his uncle Philip, m. Anne, daughter and heiress of Thomas Andrews, (grandson and heir of Sir Thomas Andrews, knt. citizen of London,) by Anne, daughter and heir of Samuel Shute, esq. sheriff of London in 1681, and left an only daughter and heiress,

FRANCIS, who m. DINGLEY ASCHAM, esq. and conveyed Connington and the other estates to him.

1. Mary, m. Jonathan Symonds, esq. of Great Ormesby, in the county of Norfolk, and had issue.

2. Alice, m. to William Shiers, gent. buried at Great Ormesby, 30th October, 1749.

3. Catherine.

4. Frances, married to Dr. Lewis, a physician in London.

Sir Thomas d. 13th May, 1662, aged sixty-eight years, and was buried in the south chancel of the church at Connington. He was s. by his eldest son,

III. SIR JOHN COTTON, b. 1621, M. P. for the borough of Huntingdon, in the reign of CHARLES II. and for the county in the time of JAMES II. He m. first, Dorothy, daughter and sole heir of Edmund Anderson, of Stratton and Eyworth, in the county of Bedford, and had issue,

JOHN, who m. Frances, daughter of Sir George
Downing, bart. of East Hatley, in the county of
Cambridge, and dying in the lifetime of his
father, anno 1681, left two sons and a daughter,
viz.

JOHN, successor to his grandfather.
Thomas, m, Frances, only daughter and heir
of William Langton, esq. of Peterborough,
and left an only daughter,

MARY.

Frances, b. 1677, m. to William Hanbury, esq. of Little Marcle, in Herefordshire, and had issue.*

Dorothy, m. to Dennis, esq. of Gloucestershire.

He m. secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Honywood, knt. of Marks Hall, Essex, and sister and heir of John Le Mott Honywood, esq. who d. 3rd April, 1702. By this lady he had several children, but only three to survive, viz.

The daughters of Frances Cotton and William Hanbury were,

MARY HANBURY, m. to the Rev. Martin Annesley,
D.D. vicar of Bucklebury, Berks, and had issue,
1. Francis Annesley.

11. Arthur Annesley, D. D. vicar of Chewton,
whose son,

The Rev. Arthur Annesley, of Clifford, in Gloucestershire, m. Elizabeth Vere, dau. of George Booth Tyndale, esq. of Bathford, in Somersetshire, and had issue,

1. Francis, in holy orders, b. in 1800. 2. Arthur, b. 1803.

3. William, in holy orders, b. in 1804, m. Laura, daughter of Major-Gen. Jones, of Fonmore, in Glamorganshire.

Elizabeth Walden, co-heir to her brother, m. first, to Charles Pitfield, esq. and secondly, to Talbot Touchet, esq. By the former she had,

Charles Pitfield, who m. Miss Ashley, daughter of Solomon Ashley, esq. M.P. and d. s. p.; his widow m, the Honourable Felton Hervey, youngest son of the Earl of Bristol.

Elizabeth Pitfield, m. to Edward Bigland. esq. of Long Whatton, in Leicester shire.

Hester Walden, co-heir to her brother, m. Humphrey Orme, esq. of Peterborough, cap tain in the royal navy, and had a son,

Walden Orme.

Mary Honywood, m. Doctor Roger Kenyon, and died s. P.

Sir John was s. by his grandson,

IV. SIR JOHN COTTON, of Connington, M. P. for the county of Huntingdon in 1711, who m. Elizabeth daughter of the Honourable James Herbert, of King sey, in Oxfordshire, (younger son of Philip, Earl of Pembroke,) by Catherine, his wife, daughter of The mas, Duke of Leeds, but dying s. p. 5th February, 1730-1, the baronetcy, and a portion of the estates, passed to his uncle,

v. SIR ROBERT COTTON, of Gedding, in the county of Huntingdon, who m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of Wigston, esq.; and secondly, Mrs. Morton. He died 12th July, 1749, aged eighty, and was succeeded by his son,

VI. SIR JOHN COTTON, who m. Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Burdett, bart. of Bramcote, and had one son and four daughters, viz.

JOHN, died at Durham of the small-pox, 15th No-
vember, 1739.

Jane, m. in October, 1741, to Thomas Hart, esq. of
Warfield, Berks.

II. Katherine, m. to the Rev. Dr. Trollop. III. Elizabeth, m. to George Booth Tyndale, esq. of Bathford, in Somersetshire.

ELIZABETH HANBURY, m. to Thomas Neale, esqFRANCES HANBURY, m. to F. Bareel, esq. CATHERINE HANBURY, m. to Velters Cornewall. esq. of Moccas Court.

v. William, of Hascomb, whose son,

William, of Hascomb, m. a daughter of Richard
Wasse, and had two sons and three daugh-
ters, viz.

Giles, of Hascomb, in Surrey, d. 23rd
June, 1556.

Richard, of Hascomb, heir to his brother,
m. Catherine, daughter of William Ern-
ley, of Cookham, in Sussex, and had
four sons and as many daughters; of the
latter, Susan, m. Robert Coke, of Kent,
and Elizabeth, m. Reginald Bray, of
Shere, in Surrey.

Agnes, m. to William Bartelott, esq. of
Stopham, in Sussex.

Mabel, m. to Richard Blake.

Jane, m. to Hugh Gunter.

The eldest son,

JOHN COVERT, of Sullington, living 10th HENRY VII. . Ann, daughter and heir of Thomas Vaver, gentlean usher to HENRY VIII, by Joan, his wife, daughEer of Sir John Pelham, and had three sons, viz. WILLIAM, his heir.

Thomas, of Sullington, who m. Elizabeth, daughter of John Sidney, and had, with junior issue, a

son,

RICHARD, of whom presently, as successor to his cousin.

John.

The eldest son,

WILLIAM COVERT, of Slougham, in Sussex, and of Hascomb and Wisley, in Surrey, married Ann, daugher of Sir Thomas Flemyng, and sister and co-heir of John Flemyng, and dying 20 September, 1494, left a

JOHN COVERT, of Slougham in Sussex, who m. IsaDel, daughter and heir of John Pelham, and had three Baghters, Ann, Elizabeth, and Dorothy. He d. 12th Angust, 1503, and was s. by his cousin,

RICHARD COVERT, of Slougham, who m. first, the Haughter and heir of John Tagger; secondly, Elizabeth, Haughter of George, Lord Abergavenny; thirdly, Jane,

JOHN COVERT, esq. of Slougham in Sussex, fined for his knighthood 25 HENRY VIII, m. first, Elizabeth, daughter of John Coke, of Rustington, by whom he had a son, WILLIAM; and secondly, at Twineham, in 1547, Ann, daughter of William Beard, by whom he had with three daughters, a son Edward, (father of John Covert, esq. of Abberton, in Sussex). John Covert died at the siege of Bologne in 1558, and was s. by his son,

WILLIAM COVERT, esq. who m. Benedict Herenden, and had a son and successor,

WILLIAM COVERT, esq. of Ledes Abbey, in Kent, who m. Elizabeth, sister of Sir William Steed, and dying in 1614, was s. by his son,

SIR WALTER COVERT, of Maidstone, in Kent, who m. Ann, daughter and heir of John Covert, of Slougham, and by her, who died 22nd September, 1632, left, at his decease before 1632, a son,

1. SIR JOHN COVERT, of Slougham, b. 6th June, 1620, This who was created a BARONET 2nd July, 1660. gentleman married Isabella, daughter of Sir William Leigh, knt. of Longborow, in Gloucestershire, and relict of Gervase Warmshey, of Worcester, by whom, who died in September, 1680, he had issue,

Walter, buried 30th September, 1672.
Jane, d. unm. in 1658.
Isabel, d. unm. in 1661.

MARY, m. in 1676, to Henry Goring, esq. son of
Sir Henry Goring, bart. of Highden, and had a
son,

SIR HENRY GORING, third bart. of Highden,
ancestor of the present SIR CHARLES FORSTER
GORING, bart. of Highden, in Sussex.
ANN, who became seised of the manor, of Slougham
at her father's death. She m. 26th December,
1671, to Sir James Morton, and had two sons,
John Morton, who possessed the manor of
Slougham.

James Morton, who sold Slougham to Charles
Sergison, esq.

Sir John Covert died 11th March, 1678-9, s. p. when the BARONETCY became EXTINCT.

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JOHN CRANE, who died 20 HENRY VII. was descended from an ancient and knightly family long settled in the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk. He married Agnes, daughter of John Calthorp, and left, with a daughter, Elizabeth, m. to Richard Martin of Melford, a son, ROBERT CRANE, esq. who m. twice and dying 4 EDWARD VI. was s. by his son,

ROBERT CRANE, esq. of Stonham, living 1550 and 1565, who m. Bridget, daughter of Sir Thomas Jermyn, knt. of Rushbrooke, and had issue,

HENRY, his heir, of Chilton, who m. twice; from
his first wife he was divorced; he had a daughter
Reuben, m. to Captain Harvey. His widow m.
secondly, Sir W. Carew, knt.
ROBERT.

Martha, m. to Dudley Fortescue, esq.
Bridget, m. first, to Francis Claxton, esq. and se-
condly, to John Warburton, esq.; thirdly, to Sir
Christopher Heydon; and fourthly, to Sir Ed-
ward Clere.

Ursula, m. to Henry Smith, esq. of Stanhow.
Anne, married.

Elizabeth, m. to Edward Wright, esq.

Agnes, m. first, to John Smith, esq. of Halesworth, in Suffolk, who died in 1568.

The elder son,

ROBERT CRANE, esq. was father of

I. SIR ROBERT CRANE, of Chilton, in Suffolk, high sheriff in 1632, and knight of the shire in several parliaments, who was created a BARONET 21st April, 1626. He m. first, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, bart, lord chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, by whom he had no issue, and secondly, Susan, daughter of Sir Giles Alington, knt. of Horseheath, by whom who wedded secondly, Isaac Appleton, esq. of Waldingfeld, he had four daughters his co-heirs,

MARY, m. to Sir Ralph Hare, bart.

JANE, m. first, to Sir William Airmine, bart. and secondly, to John, Lord Belasyse.

SUSAN, m. to Sir Edward Walpole, K.B. KATHERINE, m. to Edmund Bacon, esq. nephew of Sir Robert Bacon, bart.

Sir Robert died in February, 1642-3, when the BARO

NETCY EXPIRED.

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CRANE, OF WOODRISING.

CREATED 20th March, 1642.-EXTINCT, 1645.

Lineage.

SIR FRANCIS CRANE, knt. chancellor of the order of the garter, (deriving probably from a common ancestor

with the Cranes of Chilton,) purchased the lordship of Woodrising, in Norfolk, from Sir Thomas Southwell, in the early part of the seventeenth century, and seated himself there. This gentleman brought into England the manufacture of curious tapestry established at Mortlake, in Surrey. He gave five hundred pounds towards the rebuilding of St. Paul's, and added foor poor knights to the number of those in Windsor Castle. He m. Mary, sister of Sir Peter de la Maire, and dying s. p. at Paris, 6th June, 1636, was s. by his brother,

1. SIR RICHARD CRANE, of Woodrising, in Norfolk, who was created a BARONET 20th March, 1642. Hes. Mary, daughter of William, Lord Widdrington, but dying s. p. in 1645, the BARONETCY EXPIRED: his niece and adopted heir, Mary Bond, conveyed the maner of Woodrising to her husband, William Crane, esq. Loughton Bucks, but in 1668, they sold the lordship to Gabriel Bedle, citizen of London.