The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . Hylbert was certainly the Rev. Cuthbert Birkbeck, son of Edward Birkbeckof Hornby (fide post, p. 20). The prefix Sir was formerly generallyapplied to clergymen who had not taken a University degree. 4 THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. Dugdales Visitation of Yorkshire, 1666,^ certifies the arms ofThomas Birkbeck of Sheffield, and of Peter Birkbeck, Rector of Castleford,CO. York, as grandsons of Thomas Birkbeck of Orton in Com. West-morl., of the family of Morton Tinmouth in Com. Palat. Dunelm,. Argent, a fess between two lions heads erased i
The Birkbecks of Westmorland and their descendants . Hylbert was certainly the Rev. Cuthbert Birkbeck, son of Edward Birkbeckof Hornby (fide post, p. 20). The prefix Sir was formerly generallyapplied to clergymen who had not taken a University degree. 4 THE BIRKBECKS OF WESTMORLAND. Dugdales Visitation of Yorkshire, 1666,^ certifies the arms ofThomas Birkbeck of Sheffield, and of Peter Birkbeck, Rector of Castleford,CO. York, as grandsons of Thomas Birkbeck of Orton in Com. West-morl., of the family of Morton Tinmouth in Com. Palat. Dunelm,. Argent, a fess between two lions heads erased in chief, and a boarshead in base gules. Thomas Birkbeck of Orton was not descended fromthe Morton Tynmouth family, nor I believe from any of the HornbyBirkbecks [fide post, p. 43), but it seems to have been a point of honourwith the Birkbecks to claim that they were descended from the Hornbyfamily. The arms at Headlam on the shield in the fireplace are describedin The Antiquities of Gainford, by J. R. Walbran, p. 107 (I omittedto copy them myself), as a fess compony between three lionsheads erased, a crescent for difference, the crest being broken off theshield ; and the four shields in the stained glass removed from the windowat the same place are all of them, a fess compony between three lionsheads erased gules. A silver cup given in 1609 by Thomas Birkbeckof Hornby to his daughter-in-law Anna, the wife of Henry Birkbeck ofHeadlam (described on p. 23), has the arms engraved, a fess compony betweenthree lions heads. The arms of his cousi
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