Hocton, or Hoghton, appears to have been granted in marriage by Warin Bussel to one Hamon, called "Pincerna," whose grandson was the first "Adam de Hocton," who held one carucate of land in Hocton in the reign of Henry II. His grandson, Sir Adam de Hoghton, lived in the 50th of Henry III., and was the ancestor of this family.
See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 348 and 459, for an interesting account of Hoghton-Tower, long deserted by the family; and Wotton's Baronetage, i. 15.
Arms.—Sable, three bars argent: borne in the reign of Richard II. by Mons. Ric. de Hoghton. His son (?) Richard, the same, with a label of three points gules. (Rolls.)
Present Representative, Sir Henry Hoghton, 9th Baronet.
Clifton of Clifton.
Clifton is in the parish of Kirkham, and here William de Clifton held ten carucates of land in the 42nd year of Henry III., and was Collector of Aids for this county. His son Gilbert, Lord of Clifton, died in the seventeenth of Edward II. On the death of Cuthbert Clifton, in 1512, the manor was temporarily alienated from the male line by an heiress; but by a match with the coheiress of Halsall, before 1657, it again became the property of the then principal branch of this ancient family, who were originally a junior line descended from the Cliftons of Westby.
See Baines's Lancashire, iv. 404.
Arms.—Sable, on a bend argent three mullets pierced gules: borne in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. by Mons. Robert de Clyfton. (Rolls.)
Present Representative, John Talbot Clifton, Esq.