MORECOT-HALL, (Warwickshire) in the p. of Berkeswell near Mereden, is an ancient place in a black moorish soil, that once
bel. to a family of that name; but lately, if not still, to the descendants of John Matthew, a skinner of Coventry, who
had it by marriage of the heiress of Tho. Botry; who purchased it of Will. Ward, by consent of his wife an heiress of the
Morecots.