JOHN OF GAUNT.

There is a curious tradition respecting the estate of Sutton Park, (the seat of Sir J. Burgoyne.) near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, which states it formerly belonged to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, who gave it to an ancestor of the present proprietor, named Roger Burgoyne, by the following laconic grant:—­

  I, John of Gaunt,
  Do give and do grant
  To Roger Burgoyne,
  And the heirs of his loin,
  Both Sutton and Potton,[3]
  Until the world’s rotten.

There is also a moated site in the park, called “John of Gaunt’s Castle.”

J.H.

    [3] A neighbouring village.

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