DASSET-BURTON, (Warwickshire) or DASSET-MAGNA, on the N. side of the former, is a large p. whose Ch. stands in that part called Burton-Dasset. It bel. formerly to the Suthleys, or Sudleys; one of whom, in the R. of Hen. III. obtained a Mt. here on F. and a fair at St. James-tide. In the R. of Edw. III. it went, by the female-heirs, to the Botelers, and was then called Cheping-Dasset. In the R. of Hen. VII. it went to the Belknaps; and in the next R. it was divided bet. Gerard Danet, Will. Shetley, and Sir Edw. Wotton, from whom descended Ld. Wotton, who was possessed of his part in the R. of James I. and Danet sold his part to Peter Temple, Esq; whose posserity enjoyed it in 1640.