DRACOTT, (Warwickshire) on the W. side of Dunchurch, was formerly a Lp. of the Dracotts, then of the Verdons. After them it came to Sir John Delves, whose son sold it to Sir William Bagot; and from his issue it was conveyed to John of Gaunt, whose son, afterwards K. Hen. IV. gave it to the D. and C. of Leicester. At the Diss. K. Edw. VI. granted it to Thomas Hawkins, and his heirs, who conveyed it to John Smith, then the farmer of it; after which it came, partly by marriage and partly by purchase, to Thomas Worcester, whose posterity enjoyed it in 1640.