WORMLEIGHTON, (Warwickshire) to the N. E. of Fenny-Compton, formerly bel. to Sir Simon Montfort, on whose attainder in the R. of Hen. VII. it was granted from the crown to Will. Cope, cofferer of the houshold, paying 20 marks a year to the exchequer. He sold it to John Spenser, to whose descendant, Robert, in the R. of James I. it gave title of Baron, as it has done ever since to his descendants, the Earls of Sunderland, several of whose family lie interred in its Ch.