BURTON-HASTINGS, (Warwickshire) near the road from Coventry to Leicester, so called from its ancient Lds. the Hastings,
who held one half of the town; the other moiety of which was given in the R. of Hen. II. to the mon. of Nun-Eaton. The
Hastings part was afterwards sold to Mr. Harvey a merchant, whose daughter carried it, by marriage, to Thomas Cotton, Esq;
of Huntingtonshire, whose great-grandson Sir Thomas Cotton of that co. Bart, was possessed of it in 1640.