Career
In 1677 he was made Baronet of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester. After he was accused of treasonable correspondence with the Electress of Hanover, Sophia, in 1685 he was committed to the Tower of London by the Earl of Sunderland, Secretary of State for the Southern Department. He was eventually cleared of the charges.
As a result the family"s seat at Combermere Abbey was enhanced with the Llewenni Estate in Denbighshire, northeast Wales.The couple had the following known issue:
Hugh-Calveley Cotton, who married Mary, only daughter and heiress of Sir William Russel, Baronet.
Hugh-Calvely died before his father and left an only daughter, Catherine, who married Thomas Lewis, Esq. of Street Pierre, Monmouthshire. Sir Thomas Cotton, 2nd Baronet, of Combermere.