The Noble and Gentle Men of England / or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.

by Evelyn Philip Shirley

Arms.—Gules, fretty argent. This coat was borne by Sir John de Hodelestone in the reign of Edward II., Sir Adam the same, with a border indented or, Sir Richard with a label azure, Sir Richard, the nephew, with a label or. (Roll of the reign of Edw. II. co. York.)

Present Representative, W. Huddleston, Esq.

Gentle.

Irton of Irton.

A family of very great antiquity, and resident at Irton, on the river Irt, from whence the name is derived, as early as the reign of Henry I. The Manor of Irton has belonged also to the ancestors of Mr. Irton almost from the time of the Conquest.

See Lysons, lxxv. 119.

Arms.—Argent, a fess sable, in chief three mullets gules.

Present Representative, Samuel Irton, Esq. late M.P. for the Western Division of Cumberland.

Briscoe of Crofton, in the parish of Thursby, Baronet 1782.