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BARTON, which gives name to a deanery, lies in the hundred of Wetherley, about three miles west of Cambridge. Several manors in this parish are spoken of in ancient records, some of which we have not been able to trace to the present time; Lancaster's manor, which had belonged before to sir Robert de la Beche, was purchased of Henry duke of Lancaster, in the year 1359, by Thomas Eltisley, the first master of Ben'et college, and by him settled on that society. The manor of Burgherst, which, at an earlier period, had been in the family of Lord, was so called from Bartholomew lord Burgherst, who possessed it in the reign of Edward III.; it was afterwards successively in the families of Somer, Vere, Charlton, Ward and Martin; in 1680, it was sold by Devereux Martin esq. to the university of Cambridge. The vice chancellor for the time being has this estate: the mansion belonging to it, formerly the seat of the Martins, is occupied as a farmhouse. A third manor held of the barony of Leydett, passed from the Da La Vaches by a female heir to the Greys of Wilton. John, or Edmund lord Grey, sold it to sir Henry Colet, whose son, Dr John Colet, gave it to the Mercers company, in trust, for charitable purposes. Another manor held also of the barony of Leydett, was sold by the Bretton family to Geffrey de Hatfield, who gave it to the priory of Barnwell, in or about the reign of Edward I.. A manor distinct from either of the foregoing, and held of the barony of Kemeys, appears to have been in the family of Mauncell in the reign of Edward I.. In the church are some memorials of the family of Martin. The impropriate tithes which had belonged to Merton abbey, were given by king Henry VIII. to King's college. The bishop of Ely is patron of the vicarage.
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