COTTERED, (Hertfordshire) stands on a hill, to the W. of Buntingford, and 1 m. N. E. from Ardeley; and was called
Coldridge by the Saxons, from its cold situation on a ridge of clay. The manor, which lies in the jurisdiction of St.
Peter's, Weslminster, bel. in the R. of Edw. I. to Will. le Brevere; in the R. of Edw. III. to Will. Phelpe and John
Oredyne. One moiety passed, in the R. of Rich. II. to John Fray; and, by marriage, it passed, in the R. of Hen. VII. to
Hump. Stafford, and his descendants; by one of whom, it was sold, in the R. of Q. Eliz. to Edw. Pulter, of Great-
Wymondley; and came afterwards, by marriage, to Forester, descended from a mercer of London. The other moiety passed, in
the R. of Rich. II. to one Sheine; and was soon after in the possession of Sir Will. Cheyny, of Brook in Wilts; from whose
family it passed, by marriage, to John Willoughby,as it did from thence also, by marriage, in the R. of Hen. VIII. to
Foulk Grevil, Esq; one of whose descendants, the Ld. Brook, dying, in the R. of Cha. I. without issue, the manor went to
his sister, Lady Verney, wife of Sir Rich. Verney; whose descendants of the same name, had the title of Willoughby de
Brook adjudged to him in 1695; and his son's wife had this manor in jointure. A wake is kept here to this day, on the
festival of St. John Baptist, to whom the Ch. is dedicated.