In 1504 William had livery of his great-uncle Hugh's manors of Clopton and Little Wilmcote, and his lands in Stratford and Bridgetown.
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Hugh Clopton was born about 1440 at Clopton House near Stratford-upon-Avon, where the Clopton family had settled in the thirteenth century in the reign of Henry III.
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Clopton's chapel and Clopton Bridge are still notable features of modern Stratford.
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In 1450 his father had received license to erect an oratory at the manor house, and in 1474 his elder brother, Thomas Clopton, obtained permission from Pope Sixtus IV to add a chapel to the house for the celebration of divine service.
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William Clopton, born in 1538, was the great-great-great-nephew of Hugh Clopton (d.1496), Lord Mayor of London, builder of both New Place and the bridge at Stratford upon Avon.