BEVERCOTES, (Nottinghamshire) near W. Markham, to the vicarage of which it has been joined ever since the fall of its ch. about 60 years ago. It was formerly the manor of a family of its name till the R. of Edward VI. when it came by marriage to the Molineux family, after which it was sold to the E. of Clare, ancestor of the present Ld. of Newcastle.