Record

CodeP/0016
Dates1594-1662
Person NameCotton; Sir; Thomas (1594-1662); 2nd Baronet; of Conington
SurnameCotton
ForenamesThomas
PreTitleSir
Title2nd Baronet
Epithetof Conington
ActivitySir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet was a notable landholder in Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. He was an active politician, holding a vast number of local offices as well as being an MP, JP and Sheriff of Huntingdonshire. He inherited his father's impressive library and fought hard to retain it in the face of crown opposition. It seems that his main preoccupation was the advancement of his family, as he spent significant sums to enlarge his holdings. He spent the last decade or more of his life living as a quiet country gentleman on the Bedfordshire estates of his son and daughter-in-law, but was still purchasing additional land in the years immediately before his death.
RelationshipsFather: Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (1571-1631)
Mother: Elizabeth Brocas (m.1593) daughter of William Brocas of Theddingworth, Leicestershire
Spouse: Margaret Howard (m. before 1620) daughter of Lord William Howard, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland
Alice Constable (m. c. 1640) daughter of Sir John Constable of Dromanby, Yorkshire
Children by first marriage: Lucy Cotton (d.1684) m. Sir Philip Wodehouse
Frances Cotton m. Sir Thomas Proby, 1st Baronet
Sir John Cotton, 3rd Baronet (1621-1702) m. 1644 Dorothy Anderson, daughter of Edmund Anderson; m, 1658 Elizabeth Honywood, daughter of Sir Thomas Honywood
Children by Second Marriage: Thomas Cotton
Sir Robert Cotton, MP (1644-1717)
Phillip Cotton (born c.1647)
William Cotton (born c. 1649)
Linked entries in the catalogue
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KCON/3/1/E/4Presentation
KCON/2/4/A/38Inquisition Post Mortem
KHAC0/306Land in Caldecote
KCON/2/4/B/15Acknowledgement of Receipt and Quitclaim
KCON/3/1/E/5Re-Presentation
KCON/2/4/A/46Demise for a Term
KCON/5/12/4Counsel's Opinion On steps necessary to bar entails and settle the Cotton estates.
KDMC/121Steeple Gidding: map of part of the Manor
KCON/3/2/C/1Steeple Gidding Rectory; Presentation of Edward Fludd, Clerk, M.A., by Sir Thomas Cotton, Conington, Bart.
KCON/4/2/16/1-27Assessments, Holman Goss Hundred
KHAC0/7/13/6Manor of Glatton and Holme, Deed,
KCON/2/4/A/37Demise for a Term
KCON/2/4/A/51Abstract
KCON/3/9/4Mortgage (with Counterpart)
KCON/2/4/A/48Final Concord
KCON/5/3/3Cotton v. Cotton Bill of Complaint (and draft and amended bill)
KCON/3/1/E/3Covenant; (Modus for tithes)
KCON/4/2/13/2List of money paid for my cosen John Cotton. His debts.
KCON/2/4/B/14Acknowledgement and Quitclaim
KCON/4/2/1/2Rental Conington. Written mostly in the hands of Sir Robt. Cotton and his son Thomas.
KAR56/5/45Richard St George and others, Dorothy and Anthony St George concurring, to Sir Thomas Cotton of Conington, Hunts., his trustees and others. Grant of Manor of Hatley St George with messuages and lands in Hatley St George and Gamlingay; with Covenant to levy a Fine and suffer a Recovery.
KCON/2/4/A/41Marriage Agreement; Marriages
KCON/5/1/2Rights of Way; Report of Owner (Cotton's) lawyer, J.O. Loftus, on dispute re rights of way.
KCON/4/2/11/3Steeple Gidding Parsonage Accounts
KCON/3/1/A/17Lease
KFIELDEN/F5/6/1Feoffment. Sir Thomas Cotton Bart to William Woodstock of Holme, messuage at Holme, £45.
KCON/2/4/A/42Settlement
KCON/5/3/10Cotton v. Cotton Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart., Administrator of the goods of John Cotton, Esq., his late father decd.
KCON/4/2/11/6Receipts from James Wyldbore, Rector of Steeple G. for tythes received from Sir Thomas Cotton, Bart., £12.10s. for half a year for Steeple G. 17 Apr. 1660, 18 Oct. 1660, 8 Apr. 1661.
KCON/4/2/11/5Receipts for tithes due from Sir Thomas Cotton, Bart, and his tenants to Steple Gidding Parsonage. £12.10s. per half year. From John Watson, incumbent (1654-59). (1655 and 56 described as Minister), and James Wyldbore rector (1659).
KCON/2/4/A/50Assignment in Trust
KCON/3/1/A/14Letters Patent Licence to Alienate
KCON/1/G/2Manorial Dues of Thomas Cotton in Conington, Glatton, Folkesworth, Caldecot and Stilton.
KCON/3/15/2Judgement of the King's Court at Westminster. Confirmation of the rights of Sir Robert Cotton and Thomas Cotton in the hundred of Norman Cross.
KCON/2/4/A/30Grant
KCON/2/4/B/11Quitclaim
KCON/2/4/B/13Assignment of Bond and Quitclaim
KCON/4/2/23/1Steeple Gidding Rectorship
KCON/3/1/A/12Lease
KCON/5/3/14Cotton v. Cotton Mary Honeywood Cotton, one of the defendants' answer to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart, complainant.
K588/F/34Pedigree book and cartulary of Cotton family of Conington with ink sketches of achievements and monuments of a knight.
KCON/2/4/A/25Declaration of Trust; Thomas Cotton, Esq., son and heir apparent of Robert Cotton, Kt. and Bart.
KCON/2/4/B/12Release of Debt.
KCON/2/4/A/40Deed to lead Uses of Fine
KCON/2/4/A/43Settlement (Deed to Lead Uses to Fine, with Counterpart)
KCON/2/4/A/54Quitclaim; Dame Alice Monoux, widow and relict of Sir Humphery Monoux, late of Wooton, Beds., Bart, decd., and youngest dau. of Sir Thomas Cotton, late of Conington, Bart, decd. and Lewis Monoux, Grays Inn, Middx. Esq., and Philip Cotton, Little Conington, Cambs. - the exors. of the will of Sir Humphery Monoux.
KCON/3/1/A/15Agreement
KCON/5/3/11Cotton v. Cotton Lewis Monoux, Esq., one of the defts., answer to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John C., Bart. complt.
KCON/5/3/12Cotton v. Cotton William Hanbury, one of the defendants' answer to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart, complt.
KCON/5/3/13Cotton v. Cotton Robert Pulleyn, Esq., one of the defendants, answer to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart, complt.
KCON/3/15/7Deed to Declare Uses of Fine
KFIELDEN/F3/7/11Schedule of deed relating to the Manor of Glatton purchased by Thomas Truman from Sir John Cotton, Bart, commencing with grant from James I, 16 July 9 James I.
KFIELDEN/F3/13/4Power of Attorney by Sir Thomas Cotton of Conington, Bart, to Kenelme Collins to enter upon messuage at Holme sold by said Cotton to William Woodstocke.
KCON/2/4/A/33Assignment of Term
KCON/2/4/A/34Demise For a Term
KCON/3/2/A/80Final Concord
KCON/4/2/16/40List of Levies
KHP17/6/2List of Cotton family monumental inscriptions.
KCON/4/2/11/2Account of First Fruits; Paid to Parliament - £10.
KCON/5/3/7Cotton v. Cotton Brief of Bill
KCON/7/10/1Letter to Sir Thomas Cotton, Bart, Keyworth, Beds. from John Corstell, Glatton.
KCON/8/1Pedigree of the Brus-Cotton family, showing the descent of the lordship of Conington, Hunts, from Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon to whom St. Edward the Confessor gave it after he had banished Turkill the Dane.
KCON/2/4/A/47Deed to Lead Uses to Fine
KCON/2/4/A/39Marriage Settlement; (Marriage of Thomas, son and heir of Sir Robt. Cotton, and Margaret Howard, dau. of Lord Wm. Howard, son of the Duke of Norfolk).
KCON/2/4/A/45Demise for a Term (Collateral Security)
KCON/2/4/A/35Demise for a Term
KCON/2/4/A/36Settlement
KCON/2/4/A/49Declaration of Trust (and copy)
KCON/3/1/A/16Lease and Quitclaim
KCON/3/2/A/79Deed to Lead Uses of Fine
KCON/2/4/A/31Deed to Declare Uses of Trust
KCON/2/4/A/32Deed to Lead Uses of Fine
KCON/2/4/A/44Settlement
KCON/5/3/15Cotton v. Cotton; Answer of Sir Robert Cotton, Kt and Thomas C., Esq. son and heir of William C., Esq., decd. defendants, to the Bill of Complaint of Sir John Cotton, Bart, complainant.
KFIELDEN/F5/8/1Settlement. Sir Thomas Cotton of Connington, John Cotton, his son, Sir Thomas Soame of Kimberley, Norfolk, Walter Chetwyn, of Staffordshire, Robert Bernard.
KDMC/120Steeple Gidding Lordship map 1648
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