DRAYTON-BASSET, (Staffordshire) near Tamworth, so called from the Bassets, who became Lds of it soon after the Conquest. In the R. of Hen. IV. it was the Earl of Stafford's, in whose family it continued, till, by the attainder of Edw. Stafford, the last D. of Bucks of that name, it escheated to Hen. VIII. who leased it, for many years, to one Robinson, whose son sold it to Rich. Paramore; but the latter conveyed it to the Earl of Leicester; by whose wife it went to Sir Cha. Blount, who secured it to his posterity. Here was formerly a nunnery.