COTTON, (Staffordshire) on the N. side of Rugeley. This manor, in which is found a coarse sort of alabaster, bel. anciently to the family of Ld. Aston, then to the Mastertons of Cheshire; but, about the middle of the last century, Tho. Masterton sold it to Mr. Tho. Adshed; whose son, of the same name, sold the tenants every one his own farm, and made them all freeholders.