WILLESFORD, (Lincolnshire) near Ancaster, the birth-place of Sir Charles Cotterel, Kt. master of the ceremonies to the Ks. Cha. I. and II. and to Ja. II. to whom, by reason of his age, he resigned that office; which that K. conferred upon the father of Sir Clement, called Sir Clement-Cotterel Dormer, the present master of the ceremonies. Here was formerly a priory, a cell to the abbey of Bec in Normandy, and now a small ch. sc.