. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. out issue,31st July, 1833, the estates and representa-tion of the family devolved on his brother,Dymoke Wells, esq. now of Grebby Hall. Arms—Arg. a lion rampant sa. quarter-ing Dymoke, Ludlow, Marmion, Kilpec,Wells, Waterton, Talboys, Umfreville,Kyme, Kniveton, Waterhouse, &c. Crests—First, a demi lion rampant; se-cond, a sword erect arg. hilt and pomel or. Motto—Semper paratus. Estates—Grebby, in the county of Lin-co
. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. out issue,31st July, 1833, the estates and representa-tion of the family devolved on his brother,Dymoke Wells, esq. now of Grebby Hall. Arms—Arg. a lion rampant sa. quarter-ing Dymoke, Ludlow, Marmion, Kilpec,Wells, Waterton, Talboys, Umfreville,Kyme, Kniveton, Waterhouse, &c. Crests—First, a demi lion rampant; se-cond, a sword erect arg. hilt and pomel or. Motto—Semper paratus. Estates—Grebby, in the county of Lin-coln, possessed by the Dymokes in the reignof Edward III. The property at Kexbyand Willingham belonged, many centuriesback, to the Eastlands, from whom it de-scended to the Hawkesmores, ofTresswell,in Notts, who willed it to Anne Hurt, thewife of Thomas Waterhouse, esq. of Beck-ingham. Tresswell, Notts, the ancient seatof the Hawksmores. Seats—Grebby Hall, near Spilsby; andKexby Grange, near Gainsborough. MYTTON, OF HALSTON. MYTTON, JOHN-FOX, esq. of Halston, in the county of Salop, h. 20th Novem-ber, 1823, succeeded his father on the 29th March, 1834. This family, of importance for severalcenturies in tlie county of Salop, is pre- sumed to have taken itg surname from thevillage of Mitton, in the parish of Fitz,about four miles from the town of Shrews-bury. The name occurs in old records,spelt differently, Mitton, Motton, Mutton,and Mytton, and in those we trace its in-fluence to the beginning of the fourteenthcentury. In the Tallage Roll of Shrews-bury, anno 1313, William de Mutton isone of the persons of property who is ratedfor his goods. In 1360, Thomas de Mut-ton was bailiff of Shrewsbury, and in 1373,Reginald de Mutton, the immediate an-cestor of the family before us, filled thesame municipal office, and at the close ofthat year was chosen to represent theborougli in parliament. The first person named in the pedigree isSir Everard de Mutton, knt. whoseson
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