BRANDON, (Warwickshire) in the p. of Wolfton, and near the road from Rugby to Coventry, had a castle formerly bel. to the
Verduns, which was demolished by the Barons under the E. of Leicester, and rebuilt in the R. of Edward I. but nothing of
it now remains besides the moats. The Lp. passed from the Verduns to the families of Burghersh, Pavely, Delves, Arundel,
Sir Geerge Willoughby, and Yelverton, being purchased by Sir Henry Yelverton, Kt. attorney-general to K. James I. in whose
heirs we find it anno 1640.