Wybergh of Clifton.
In the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Edward III., William de Wybergh, of Saint Bee's, in Cumberland, became possessed of the manor of Clifton, in marriage with Elianor, only daughter of Gilbert D'Engayne, whose family had held it from the time of Henry II. It has ever since continued the seat and residence of their descendants. In Cromwell's days the Wyberghs had the honour to be considered delinquents; and in the succeeding century, in 1715, the head of the house was taken prisoner in consequence of his allegiance to the house of Hanover.
Younger Branch. Lawson of Brayton, Baronet 1831.
See Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. p. 417.
Arms.—Sable, three bars or, in chief two estoiles of the last. Sometimes I find two mullets in chief, and one in base, used in place of the estoiles.
Present Representative, William Wybergh, Esq.
WILTSHIRE.
Knightly.