A younger branch was of Tong in this county, descended from Henry, youngest son of Sir Richard Tempest of Bracewell, Sheriff of Yorkshire in the 8th of Henry VIII. created Baronet in 1664, extinct 1819. See Whitaker's Craven, pp. 80, 87. ARMS.--_Argent, a bend between six storm finches sable_. Present Representative, Charles Henry Tempest, Esq. HAMERTON OF HELLIFIELD PEEL. [Illustration] One of the most ancient families in the North of England, according to Dr. Whitaker, descended from Richard de Hamerton, who lived in the twenty-sixth of Henry II., anno 1170. From Hamerton, the original seat, the family removed to Hellifield, acquired by marriage with the heiress of Knolle, in the reign of Edward III. The Castle, or Peel, was built in the reign of Henry VII. The Hamertons were engaged in the Northern Rebellion in 1537, and thereby Sir Stephen Hamerton lost his head, and his family the estate; which was restored to the male representative of the family, in the third year of Elizabeth, by a munificent settlement made by John Redman, who had become possessed of the property, and was related by marriage to the Hamertons. A younger branch was of Preston-Jacklyn in this county. See Whitaker's Craven, ed. 1812, p. 124; and Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, 1665-6, printed by the Surtees Society in 1859, p. 354. ARMS.--_Argent, three hammers sable_. The Preston-Jacklyn line bore _Argent, on a chevron between three hammers sable a trefoil slipped or_. Present Representative, James Hamerton, Esq. HOTHAM OF SOUTH DALTON; BARON OF IRELAND 1797; BARONET 1621. [Illustration] Peter de Trehouse, who assumed the local name of Hotham, and was living in the year 1188, is the ancestor of this family, who were of Scarborough in this county in the reign of Edward I., a seat which continued the principal residence of the Hothams for several centuries until it went to decay after the Civil Wars in the seventeenth century. The siege of Hull in 1643, when Sir John Hotham was Governor for the Parliament, and with his son was discovered holding correspondence with the Royalists, for which they both suffered death, will ever render this family historical. See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 473; the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, vol. ii. p. 306; and Oliver's Beverley, p. 509. ARMS.--_Barry of ten argent and azure, on a canton or a raven proper_. M. John de Hotham is stated in the Roll of arms of the period of Edward III. to have borne, _Or, a bend sable charged with three mullets argent voided gules_. Present Representative, Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham. BOYNTON OF BARMSTON, BARONET 1618.