SUTTON-COFIELD, (Warwickshire) 88 cm. 105 mm. from London, is a large p. in an excellent air, among pleasant woods, but in a barren soil. K. Hen. I. exchanged it with Roger E. of Warwic, for the manors of Hocham and Langham in Rutland. It has a chase, or forest, as it was at first called, which extended to the banks of Thame and Bourne; and Ikenild-Street runs thro' part of it. Guy de Beauchamp, E. of Warwic, in the R. of Edw. I. obtained a charter for a Mt. here on Tu. and a Fair on Trinity-eve, for 3 days. Thomas de Beauchamp, E. of Warwic, obtained another Fair here, on the Eve and Day of St. Martin, This manor at length came to Rich. Nevil, who, for siding wifh the House of York in the R. of Hen. VI. forfeited it to the K. who demised it to Sir Richard Mountfort, and disposed of the ranger-ship of the chase to John Holt. In the R. of Hen. VIII. when this manor was in the crown, John Herman, alias Vesey, Bp. of Exeter, who was born in this Lp. and a very great benefactor to the T. obtained his letters-patent for incorporating it, by the name of a warden and society, to consist of 23 persons, besides the warden; and for another Fair on St. Simon and Jude, with a Mt. on M. instead of Tu. which was discontinued, together with a common-hall, a clerk of the Mt. and a steward and serjeant at mace; the warden for the time being to be coroner within the corp. and that no sheriff, or bailiff, mould meddle within their liberties, granting them besides, the whole T. and manor of Sutton-Cofield, as also the chace and park, to hold to them and their successors for ever in fee-farm, at the rent of 58 l. a year. Here is a grammar-sc. founded by the abovenamed Bp. of Exeter.