FRANCTON, (Warwickshire) on the Foss, near Dunsmore-Heath, bel. anciently in part to the Es. of Warwick, and partly to the
prior of Coventry. The latter, after the Diss. was granted by Q. Eliz. to Tho. Woodcock, Tho. Thornton, and their heirs;
by whom it was sold to John Temple, whose grandson enjoyed it in 1640. The former came to a family of the same name, which
held it till the R. of Edw. I. when it came to Ralph Okeover, who sold it to John Palmer; in whose male line it continued
till the R. of Henry VI. when by marriage it came to John Hereward. In the R. of Hen. VIII. it bel. to Richard Duke, from
whose posterity it came to Thomas Leeson, and after him to Edward York, whose son gave it in marriage with his daughter to
John Shugburgh Esq;.