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COTON, anciently called COTES, in the hundred of Wetherley, and deanery of Barton, lies about three miles west of Cambridge. The manor, which belonged for more than two centuries to the baronial family of Engayne, and their representatives, has been long vested in the master and fellows of Catherine Hall, who are patrons of the rectory.
In the church is the monument of Dr. Andrew Downes, Greek professor in the university of Cambridge, translator of the Apocrypha, who died at Coton on 1627.
A record, in the reign of Edward I., states that the chapel of Cotes belonged to the manor of Grantchester, held under the honour of Boulogne, till it was lost in the King's Court, by default, in the last reign.
Dr. Gale, one of the vice-presidents at a meeting of the Royal Society, in the year 1682, being in the chair, informed the society that he knew a man of Coton, in Cambridgeshire, who was then 120 years old; he had been told that at upwards of 100 he had new hair, and a new set of teeth: no notice of this extraordinary instance of longevity appears in the parish register.
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