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b. c.1411, s. and h. of Walter Cotton (d.1445), CIPM, xxvi. 271-2. of London and Landwade by Joan, da. and coh. of John Frosh† of London, mercer. S.L. Thrupp, Merchant Class Med. London, 334, 342; A.B. Beaven, Aldermen, ii. 162. The claim that Walter married a da. of one Sir Robert Rede of Oxon. appears to be false: Vis. Cambs. (Harl. Soc. xli), 21. m. (1) Anne; Cambs. Mon. Inscriptions, ed. Palmer, 99. (2) c.1436, CPR, 1436-41, p. 31. Alice (d. 21 Nov. 1473), CFR, xxi. 61. da. and coh. of John Abbot II*, 5s. 3da. Vis. Cambs. 21; K.G. Bradberry, ‘The World of Etheldreda Gardener’, Ricardian, ix. 146-7.
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Attestor, parlty. election, Cambs. 1442.

Clerk of the great wardrobe by 1427–d.; E361/6, rot. 18d; CPR, 1446–52, pp. 559–60. porter 18 Mar. 1433–d.; E101/408/14; CPR, 1446–52, pp. 559–60. usher of the Chamber by 1444; keeper of the great wardrobe 3 Dec. 1450 – June 1453; vice-chamberlain of the Household by d. A.F. Bottomley, ‘Admin. Cambs.’ (London Univ. M.A. thesis, 1952), 180 (citing epitaph at Landwade church).

J.p. Cambs. 9 Mar. 1439–d. (q.), Cambridge 3 Feb. 1440 (q.)-Nov. 1441, 14 Nov. 1441 – Feb. 1448, Hunts. 13 Apr. 1446 (q.)-Jan. 1455, 12 Jan. 1455 – d.

Steward for the bp. of Rochester in Suff. by 1440, at Harston, Cambs. for Joyce, Lady Tiptoft, from Oct. 1443, E. Anglian, xiii. 72; Add. Roll 18538, mm. 9, 10. of Bury St. Edmund’s abbey by Mich. 1453–?d. E368/226, rot. 3.

Under steward, duchy of Lancaster estates in Cambs. by Feb. 1440; bailiff by 1441. JUST3/212, rot. 11d; 220/3.

Commr. to distribute tax allowance, Cambs. Apr. 1440, June 1453; treat for loans Mar., May, Aug. 1442, Sept. 1449, Suff. May 1455; PPC, vi. 238. of inquiry, Cambs. June 1443 (behaviour of Henry Hatewrong), bef. Sept. 1444 (dispute amongst members of Tyrell family), duchy of Lancaster Aug. 1446 (misdeeds of sheriff of Lancs.); R. Somerville, Duchy, i. 399. to assess subsidy, Cambs. Aug. 1450.

Bailiff, liberty of the prior of Ely in Cambs. by Mich. 1441. E372/287, item Cant.

Receiver-general of Hen. VI’s feoffees from Mich. 1444, of duchy of Lancaster (and ex officio attorney-general), 31 Mar. 1445 – d., of Queen Margaret (and ex officio treasurer of her household), 19 July 1445–d. R.A. Griffiths, Hen. VI, 307.

Keeper and ranger of Enfield park, Mdx., and parker of Walden, Essex, for the queen, from 25 Mar. 1446. Ibid.

Jt. constable (with Philip Wentworth*), Clitheroe castle, Lancs. by 1449–50, Somerville, 399, 499.

Offton castle, Suff. by Mich. 1449–6 May 1450. DL29/292/4803.

Steward and bailiff of the honour of Richmond’s bailiwick of Badburgham and manor of Bassingbourn, Cambs. June 1450–d. CPR, 1446–52, p. 329.

Parlimentarian
COTTON, William (c.1411-55), of Landwade, Cambs. and Exning, Suff.
Main residences: Landwade, Cambs.; Exning, Suff.
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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