Walter Cotton, Sheriff of London

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Citizen and Mercer of London. Alderman of Cripplegate Ward, 1409. Alderman of Castle Baynard Ward, 1416. Sheriff of London, 1411-12. Lord of Landwade and Exning Manors.

Husband of Margery, daughter of John Fresshe, Lord Mayor of London. Walter Cotton ~
Birth: 1389 - Cotton Hall Landwade Cambridgeshire, England
Death 13 May 1445 - Landwade Cambridgeshire, England
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Parents: John Cotton - ( 1336-1393 )
Spouse: Alice De Hastings ( 1325-1400 )
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Joane Reade ( 1376-1445 )
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https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/howry-family-tree/I4158.php
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MBL3-4P5
https://fabpedigree.com/s008/f020718.htm
https://cottonchronicles.com/landwade-cottons/

Ancestor~

• Walter Cotton
• M, #146742, b. circa 1375, d. 14 May 1445
• Father John Cotton, Mayor & Burgess of Cambridge b. c 1344, d. c 1393
• Mother Margaret b. c 1345
• Walter Cotton was born circa 1375 at of Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England. He married Joan Reade, daughter of John Reade and Cecilia Harlyungrugge, after 1405. Walter Cotton died on 14 May 1445 at Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England.
• Family Joan Reade b. c 1368, d. b May 1445
• Children
  • Joan Cotton+1 b. c 1408
  • Sir William Cotton+ b. c 1410, d. 22 May 1453
• Citations
• 1. [S40] RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p4887.htm#... ______________________
• Walter Cotton
• Birth: unknown
• Death: May 14, 1445
• Family links:
• Children:
  • William Cotton (____ - 1453)*
• Burial: St Nicholas Churchyard, Landwade, Forest Heath District, Suffolk, England
• Find A Grave Memorial# 136098630
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=cotton&GSfn=w... ____________________
• COTTON, John, of Cambridge.
• m. Margaret, 2s.
• Offices Held
  • Mayor, Cambridge Sept. 1376-8.1
  • Commr. of array, Cambridge Mar., June 1380, Oct. 1386.
  • J.p. Cambridge 6 May-Sept. 1380.
  • Tax collector, Cambs. Nov. 1386.
• Biography
• Coming from a family with a tradition of public service in the borough,2 Cotton was elected mayor in 1376. Acting in this capacity on behalf of the town, he made a fine of £2 at the Exchequer for the restoration of its liberties, and he also purchased a vacant lot on the bank of the river Cam, which he then leased out for the town at 4d.a year.3 At the beginning of his second mayoral term he stood surety for John Sibille when the latter was elected as knight of the shire to the Parliament of October 1377. After two years in office, Cotton was returned in April 1379 to the first of his own seven Parliaments. In four of these (1382, February and October 1383 and 1385) he was partnered by the current mayor, Richard Maisterman, and when not himself returned he offered surety for the attendance in Parliament of one or both of the borough’s Members at almost every election until 1394. He occasionally appeared on royal commissions, in spite of having obtained, on 4 Sept. 1378, a royal exemption from official appointments. His own service as a j.p. in the town in 1380 did not prevent him from becoming embroiled in the factional disputes of the following year, and in February 1381, following charges of obstructing the royal justices in their sessions and inciting the people against them, he was compelled to enter into recognizances of £100 for good behaviour. Although he is not specifically recorded as taking part in the riots which disrupted Cambridge that summer, his purchase of a royal pardon in February following suggests that his activities had created suspicion in official circles.4
• Cotton may have had mixed feelings about the mob’s attack on Corpus Christi college in 1381, for his own relationship with the clerks was somewhat ambivalent. In 1376 he had leased from the college at an annual rent of 6s.8d. a large walled garden some 35 yards long and 13 yards wide in St. Mary’s parish, sharing the lease with his wife Margaret and son Walter. Yet four years earlier, as a juror at an inquisition ad quod damnum conducted to decide whether certain tenements in the town, including one he himself held, should be alienated to the college in mortmain, he had withheld his consent to the transfer. Inquiries made in 1380 revealed that, as a result of bribery, the clerks had secured the property notwithstanding the illegality; nevertheless, in January following, the Crown confirmed the college in its possession, thereby exacerbating the contentions between town and gown. The eventual resumption of good relations between the clerks and Cotton may have been helped by the position of the burgess’s son Thomas as a scholar at the university in the 1380s. Certainly, in August 1389, Corpus Christi college gave Cotton a 40-year lease of a tenement adjoining one he already held near the market in St. Mary’s parish, for which he was required to proffer merely an annual quit rent of a rose.5 Cotton’s property holdings were extensive, for he apparently owned ‘Cotton Hall’ elsewhere in Cambridge, and the local manor of Cayles which had appurtenances in neighbouring villages. The full extent of his interests outside the town is unclear, although in 1375 he had been made a feoffee of land in nearby Trumpington, as well as of the manor of Hempstead in Essex, and in 1387 he acquired property in Swaffham Bulbeck, initially in conjunction with others including John Payn I*, but later, in 1389, taking possession of 32 acres on his own account.6
• On occasion, Cotton acted as a patron of local churches. During the 1380s he was a member of a religious guild in the church of Holy Trinity, and in 1392 he joined John Blankpayn*, John Herries* and John Thriplow* in donating to St. Mary’s church a number of properties in Cambridge and Chesterton for the endowment of a chantry.7 The date of his death is not known, but it probably occurred before 1408 when a deed mentioned a tenement in St. Andrew’s parish as formerly belonging to him, while another of the following year referred to his earlier tenancy of a garden in Petty Cury.8
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/co... ________________________

Landwade

• Landwade is a parish in west Suffolk, England, four miles north of Newmarket. One of the smallest parishes in the county, it is only 1 kilometre from north to south and at most 500m from east to west.
• The village is crossed by New River (formerly known as Monk's Lode), a small river that flows through Wicken Fen and reaches the River Cam at Upware. The village's name probably derives in part from gewaed an Old English word meaning "ford".[1]
• The area around Landwade was occupied in Roman times, and a villa was situated just to the south of the modern parish.[1]
• Although it has existed since early medieval times, the parish of Landwade has always been comparatively small. By the late 13th century it consisted of around 300 acres of farmland and around 1400 acres of fen, but boundary changes between 1881 and 1954 reduced it to its present size of only 127 acres. The civil parish was amalgamated with Fordham, Cambridgeshire in 1954, though it is now part of the parish of Exning in Suffolk.[1]
• Parishes of its size were often absorbed in the Middle Ages, but Landwade survived thanks to the rebuilding of the church by Walter Cotton (d. after 1434), Lord of the manor, in the 15th century to serve as a burial place for his family. The Manor of Landwade had passed to Sir Thomas Cotton, Knt., of Cotton Hall, Cambs., by virtue of his marriage to Alice, daughter and heiress of John Hastings, Lord of the Manor of Landwade in the 14th century.[2] Landwade Hall, a large house that was partially destroyed by bombs during the Second World War, was the ancestral home of the Cotton family until they moved to Madingley in the 18th century.
• .... etc.
• The church of St Nicholas is privately owned and falls in the grounds of Landwade Hall. Built in the mid 15th century by Walter Cotton, the church contains fine memorials to members of the Cotton family.
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landwade __________________________
• Links
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136098647
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Mercers%27_Company ____________________________

In 1423 Landwade was acquired by Walter and his brother Thomas through a succession of agreements with the Sibill and Grace families. Walter was named as the sole owner in 1428 holding the manor for one knight's fee, but may have held it jointly with his brother in 1431.(1) Thomas had died by 1436 and in 1437 Walter settled the estate on his son and heir William. The Cotton family held the manor for the next 400 years and built up a substantial estate including land in Exning and Fordham. Robert son of William may have built the original manor house, which still stood in the late 13th century. It may have been surrounded by a moat at a relatively early date. In 1407 the great gate of the manor house was 16 ft. wide. In 1448 William Cotton held free warren in his demesne at Landwade. The hall was probably in continuous occupation throughout the later Middle Ages, and was probably rebuilt on several occasions. It was rebuilt within the moated site in the earlier 16th century. In 1832 Landwade Hall was described as being "in a miserable condition" and today all that survives from the early 16th century is the bridge across the west side of the moat.(2)

Walter also built St. Nicholas church which has been essentially unaltered since its construction. The church contains the tombs of most of the Cotton family members from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mainegenie/COTTON.htm

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St Nicholas church was built by Walter Cotton as a private chapel for Landwade Hall around 1445. Despite some rather unappealling cement repair work, the essential structure has remained unaltered since the 15th century.

The church is built of partially rendered flint, and is composed of an aisleless nave, chancel, north and south transeptal chapels, south porch, and an unassuming two-stage west tower.

There is no real division between the nave and chancel save for a lovely traceried 15th century screen. There are 12 panels of 15th century glass reset in the nave windows. The original timber roof is still in place, with carved corbel head decoration.

The main interest at Landwade is not in the structure, but the wealth of historic memorials to members of the Cotton family. These span almost 300 years from the 15th to the early 18th centuries. There are several table tombs to unknown Cottons in the chancel.

In the north chapel is an extremely grand six-poster monument to Sir John Cotton (d. 1593), with the decorative strapwork so common at that period. There are more Cottons in the south transept, most of them to subsequent 'Sir John's'. In the chancel is a memorial brass to William Cotton (despite appearances to the contrary it seems that Cotton parents did know other names than 'John').

Taken as a group, the Cotton memorials are among the finest in Suffolk, and well deserve a visit. It is fascinating to trace the evolving styles from the earliest 15th century memorials to the classical fashion of the later tombs. About Landwade, St Nicholas Church Address: Church Lane, Landwade, Suffolk, England Attraction Type: Historic Church Location: Just off the B1103, 2 miles north west of Newmarket Website: Landwade, St Nicholas Church Location map OS: TL623656

http://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4297

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WALTER- b.c.1375, m.1. JOAN REDE (b.c.1376 Checkenden, Oxfordshire, m.1. c.1403 Roger Poure (b.c.1370 Bleckingdon, Oxfordshire, d.c.1405), d. before May 1445), 2. Margery Fressh, d. 14 May 1445 Landwade, Cambridgeshire

Ref:

(1) Suffolk Record Office- Ipswich Branch- HD 1538/221/17

(2) National Archives- C 143/415/18

(3) Nottinghamshire Archives- DD/P/CD/195

(4) Calendar of Patent Rolls- Richard II- Part I- 1378- p. 272

The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, c. 1549-1613: Wife of Thomas Appleton of Little Waldingfield, co. Suffolk- Walter Goodwin Davis, Portland, 1955- p. 249 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700- Frederick Lewis Weis, 7th ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1992- 246A-34 John Fressh, Lord Mayor of London in 1395- John B. Threlfall, The Genealogists' Magazine- vol. 21 no. 11 (Sep 1985), The Society of Genealogists, London- p. 396 The Ancestry of Hattie E. J. Bruce- Michael Joseph Roman, M. Roman, Northboro, MA, 1992- p. 318

The Baronetage of England- Richard Johnson, E. Kimber, London, 1771- Vol. 1, p. 382

The Visitation of Cambridge Made in 1575- John William Clay, Harleian Society, London, 1897- p. 2

http://www.scribd.com/doc/28426132/Cotton-Genealogy

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John Cotton was born 1380 in Cotton Hall, Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England. He died 1445 in England. John married Bridgett Grace. Bridgett Grace 1 was born 1365 in England.

They had the following children:

Walter Cotton was born 1389 in Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England. He died 14 May 1445 in Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England. Walter married Joan Rede.

They had the following children:

       F 	i 	Joan Cotton was born 1412.

M ii William Cotton was born about 1420 in Lanwade, Cambridgeshire, England.

http://www.juch.org/myancestors/aqwg41.asp#38467

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On 30 Apr. 1399 John Borlee and Margaret his wife granted the advowson of the church of Kingston to Thomas Cotton, Walter Cotton, Henry Shelford, clerk, and William Salle.(16) In the Chancery records for 1399 Walter and his brother Thomas, along with Henry Shelford, clerk, and William Salle granted land in Kingston and the advowson of the church there to the prior and convent of Spinney who may appropriate the church, the grantor retaining the messuages, land and rent in the city of Cambridge.(15)

On 29 Sept. 1401 Walter Cotton, citizen and mercer of London was the creditor for John Freend, alias Chippenham, of Malmesbury, Wiltshire for £40. The writ was taken before William Brampton, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster. (10)

Walter Cotton, citizen and mercer of London, was the creditor to Walter Charlton of Charlton, Wiltshire for £40. The writ was taken 12 June 1403 before William Askham, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster. William Beauchamp of Powyk, Sheriff, replied that the writ was delivered too late to be executed.(9) On 2 Oct. 1415 Walter Cotton, citizen and mercer of London loaned 20 marks to Richard Hemington of Long Stanton, Cambridgeshire, Simon Fuller, fowler, of the same place, and William Otes of Haliwell in Huntingdonshire. The writ was done before Richard Whittington, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster.(13)

In the London Metropolitan Archives are letters of attorney dated 10 July 1409 by John Staverton and Walter Cotton to William Laarke and John Byrom to deliver to John Middleton, mercer, Robert Oteleye, grocer, John Fray, John Bally, Richard Osborn and John Graunt, clerk, a messuage called Knyghtcotes, a water mill called Ravenyngmyll and a fishery in the water of Colneye in Herefeld.(3) There is an indenture of fine in the LMA dated St. Martin's Day, Nov. 1411. John Stanerton, Walter Cotton, citizen and merchant of London, and William Marcheford, citizen and merchant of London, petitioners, John Hotoft, Esq. and Idonia his wife, Thomas Aleyn, citizen and merchant of London and Agatha his wife, deforciants, regarding the messuage of Knyghtcotes, the mill called Raveningmill, 260 acres of land, 12 acres of meadow, tenements, water, woods, fishing rights in the Colne River and 100 marks of Silver in Harefield.(14) In the Chancery records for 1411 is a writ concerning the debt of William Oxford, citizen of London who owed William Middleton, citizen, grocer of London 100 marks. The case was brought before Richard Whittington, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster 13 Feb. 1410. John Reynwell and Walter Cotton, Sheriffs had delivered to William Middleton the tenement mentioned in the writ 14 July 1411.(8)

At King's College is a grant of an advowson from William Somersham, Henry Thomeston and William Salle to Thomas Cotton, Walter Cotton and John Huntyngdon dated 24 Jun 1416.(7)

In 1420 John Spechewyke and Christina his wife, late the wife of William Balet, granted to Walter Cotton, Edmund Rede, Walter Walkestede, John Langeston and William Boneton, land of the late William Balet in East Enborne, Berkshire.(4) The release to Walter Cotton, Edmund Rede, and William Bondon of all their right in the lands of the late William Balet in Estenborne is recorded 19 Nov. 1428(5) In the records of the Exchequer for 1420 is a grant by Robert Herterygge to Walter Cotton, Edmund Rede, Walter Walkestede, clerk, John Langeston, and William Rovedon of all the lands in Endebourne which formerly belonged to Richard Langynow.(11) In 1428 William Walkestede, clerk, John Langston, and Laurence Hampton sold to Walter Cotton and Thomas Gladman all their right in the manor of Estenborne, near Newbury, Berkshire.(12)

From the records of the Chancery from 1404-1426 is a suit by Lowys Trevesan, merchant of Venice vs. Drew Barantyne, Walter Cotton, John Reynewelle and William Flete for the arrest of goods at Southampton.(6)

In 1423 Landwade was acquired by Walter and his brother Thomas through a succession of agreements with the Sibill and Grace families. Walter was named as the sole owner in 1428 holding the manor for one knight's fee, but may have held it jointly with his brother in 1431.(1) Thomas had died by 1436 and in 1437 Walter settled the estate on his son and heir William. The Cotton family held the manor for the next 400 years and built up a substantial estate including land in Exning and Fordham. Robert son of William may have built the original manor house, which still stood in the late 13th century. It may have been surrounded by a moat at a relatively early date. In 1407 the great gate of the manor house was 16 ft. wide. In 1448 William Cotton held free warren in his demesne at Landwade. The hall was probably in continuous occupation throughout the later Middle Ages, and was probably rebuilt on several occasions. It was rebuilt within the moated site in the earlier 16th century. In 1832 Landwade Hall was described as being "in a miserable condition" and today all that survives from the early 16th century is the bridge across the west side of the moat.(2)

Walter also built St. Nicholas church which has been essentially unaltered since its construction. The church contains the tombs of most of the Cotton family members from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

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COTTON By Patent Roll dated Westminster 4 Sept. 1378: Exemption for life, of John de Cotton, of Cambridge, from being put on assizes, juries, or recognisances, and from appointment as mayor, sheriff, escheator, coroner,arrayer, collector or other bailiff or minister of the king against his will.( 4 )John was a witness to a deed of gift 7 May 1385 by Robert Wethersfeld, barber and burgess of Cambridgeto his son Walter and Margaret, daughter of Thomas Caldebenkene of Conlyngg and their heirs tomessuages in Cambridge.( 3
)In the Chancery records for 1391 John Cotton, John Blankepayn, John Herrys, John Trippelowe, WilliamPursere of Cambridge, Thomas Caldecote, John Refham, Alexander Westmerland, John Wesenham,Thomas Colyns, Thomas atte Felde, Simon Holbeche, and John Ratford, granted messuages, land and rentin Cambridge and Chesterton to a chaplain in the church of St. Mary the Great by the market, Cambridge.( 2
)There is a feoffment dated 1 July 1430 from Robert Gernoun of Wykehmmeskeyth (Wickham Skeith) andhis son John to John Costyn, citizen and girdle maker of London, John Costyn of Suffolk, Thomas Gernounof London, cap maker, and William Lombard, citizen and pouch maker of London, to all the lands andtenements formerly of John de Cotton of Cantebrigg (Cambridge) in Fynyngham (Finningham), Cotton andBaketon (Bacton).( 1
) Issue- I. Thomas- b.c.1373 Cambridge, d.s.p. Sept. 1436 Landwade, Cambridgeshire. Lord of the Manor of 

Trumpington. 

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6II. WALTER - b.c.1375, m.1. JOAN REDE (b.c.1376 Checkenden, Oxfordshire, m.1. c.1403 Roger Poure (b.c.1370 Bleckingdon, Oxfordshire, d.c.1405), d. before May 1445), 2. Margery Fressh, d. 14 May1445 Landwade, Cambridgeshire Ref: (
1 ) Suffolk Record Office- Ipswich Branch- HD 1538/221/17( 2
) National Archives- C 143/415/18( 3
) Nottinghamshire Archives- DD/P/CD/195( 4 ) Calendar of Patent Rolls- Richard II- Part I- 1378- p. 272 The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, c. 1549-1613: Wife of Thomas Appleton of Little Waldingfield, co. Suffolk -Walter Goodwin Davis, Portland, 1955- p. 249

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 - Frederick Lewis Weis,7th ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1992- 246A-34

John Fressh, Lord Mayor of London in 1395 - John B. Threlfall, The Genealogists' Magazine- vol. 21 no.11 (Sep 1985), The Society of Genealogists, London- p. 396 The Ancestry of Hattie E. J. Bruce - Michael Joseph Roman, M. Roman, Northboro, MA, 1992- p. 318 The Baronetage of England  - Richard Johnson, E. Kimber, London, 1771- Vol. 1, p. 382 The Visitation of Cambridge Made in 1575 - John William Clay, Harleian Society, London, 1897- p. 21 6II. WALTER (HENRY 1, THOMAS 2, HUMPHREY 3, THOMAS 4, JOHN 5)

b.c.1375m.1. Margery Fressh2. JOAN REDE (b.c.1376 Checkenden, Oxfordshire, m.1. c.1403 Roger Poure (b.c.1370 Bleckingdon,Oxfordshire, d.c.1405), d. before May 1445), d. of John and Cecilia (Harlyungrugge) Rede of Checkingden, Oxfordshire.

Issue- I. Joan- b.c.1408, m. Richard Sturgeon 

 7II. WILLIAM - b.c.1410 Landwade, Cambridgeshire, m.c.1438 ALICE ABBOTT (b.c.1418 London,d. 21 Nov. 1473 Landwade, Cambridgeshire), d. 22 May 1455 St. Albans, HerfordshireIII. Walter- b.c.1412. ancestor of the Cottons of Cotton Hall and Stersome 
IV. Thomas- b.c.1414

Source: https://www.scribd.com/document/28426132/Cotton-Genealogy

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• The origin of these imaginary accounts of the Cotton family is T. Wotton, English Baronetage, 1741, vol. ii, p. 112, which states that Sir Thomas Cotton married Alice, daughter and heir to John Hastings of Landwade and had issue John Cotton who was M.P. for Cambridge temp. Rich. II; that he married Bridget, daughter of Richard Grace of Norfolk, by whom he had two sons, 'Thomas .and Walter,. This account is repeated in J. P. Hore, Sporting Records of Cheveley, 1899., p. 17. But I think the charters printed in the appendix prove that no Cotton married a Hastings or a Grace.”
• The Cotton' family, is one of respectable antiquity, 'but not nearly so ancient as the pedigree 'makers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries claimed. The surname Cotton was probably common in the fourteenth century. William Cole thought that it was not possible to graft the .Landwade family on to the Cottons who, Owned-Cotton Hall which.stood opposite Pembroke College. We are' only on certain ground when we. read in the' Landwade Chartulary that the manor of Landwade was sold to Thomas and Walter Cotton. It was Walter the mercer who found the money, for in the subsidy of 1428 he is stated to hold one knight's fee in Land wade. Walter was buried in Landwade chapel, as were all his descendants who were lords of the manor until the end of the eighteenth century ...” www.findagrave.com

Walter Cotton BIRTH unknown DEATH 14 May 1445 BURIAL St Nicholas Churchyard Landwade, Forest Heath District, Suffolk, England MEMORIAL ID 136098630

Citizen and Mercer of London. Alderman of Cripplegate Ward, 1409. Alderman of Castle Baynard Ward, 1416. Sheriff of London, 1411-12. Lord of Landwade and Exning Manors.

Husband of Margery, daughter of John Fresshe, Lord Mayor of London.

Family Members Children William Cotton unknown–1453

Joan Cotton Sturgeon 1412–1456