Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate, By John Philip Hore, Cheveley Park - 1899
Cotton Family
The name of this family is said to be derived from the manor of Cotton, anciently called Cotes, in the hundred of Wetherley, and deanery of Barton, about three miles west of Cambridge, of which Sir Henry Cotton, lord of the manor of Cotton Hall, in this county, or, according to other authorities, of Cotton Hall, Exning, co. Suffolk, was seated. At any rate, it is admitted that he married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Henry le Fleming, by whom he had issue Thomas, his son and heir, father of Humphrey, who by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Holbroke, had issue

Lord of the manor of Cotton-Hall, in Cambridgeshire