BUTTERTON, a chapelry in the parish of MAYFIELD,
southern division of the hundred of TOTMONSLOW;
county of STAFFORD, 63 miles (E.) from Leek,
containing 432 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in. the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese
of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed with £400 royal
bounty, and £,1400 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Vicar of Mayfield. William Mellor, in
1754, bequeathed property now producing £16 a year,
for which twenty children are taught to read. Butterton
is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster; and
within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutr
bury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts
under 40s.  .