GOTHAM, (Nottinghamshire) in the S. W. angle of the Co. noted for nothing so much as the ridiculous fable of the wise men here, who, 'tis said, went about to hedge in a cuckow. What original it had does not appear, tho' at Court-Hill in this p. there is a bush called Cuckow-Bush. The manor bel. anciently to the Beaumonts Earls of Leicester, who had a castle here. The family of Dives were Lds. of this T. in the R. of Henry II. and held it to the time of Edw. III. It went thence by marriage to the family of St. Andrew, who were Lds. of it till the R. of K. Cha. I. when for want of issue-male it went by marriage to Gervase Piggot, Esq; of Thrumpton, from whom it has descended to his posterity.