[Illustration] Ormerod gives no detailed pedigree, but states that the Cluttons had been settled at Clutton, in the parish of Farndon, in this county, as early as the 21st of Edward I, and that the manor of the same place was held by this family in the time of Henry VI. In the reign of Henry VIII., Roger, third son of Owen Clutton of Courthyn, having married an heiress of Aldersey of Chorlton, became seated there, and was the ancestor of the present family. From Henry, elder brother of this Roger, were descended the Clutton Brocks late of Pensax in Worcestershire, who were there established in the seventeenth century. See Ormerod, ii. 366, 410, and a pedigree of this family in Harleian MS. 2119. ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron ermine, cotised sable, between three annulets gules_. Present Representative, Thomas Charlton Clutton, Esq. LECHE OF CARDEN. [Illustration] The pedigree commences in the reign of Henry IV. with John Leche, (said to be a younger brother of the house of Leche of Chatsworth, in Derbyshire,) who married the heiress of Cawarthyn, or Carden, and settled there about the year 1475. Some pedigrees, however, seat the Leches at Carden as early as the twentieth of Edward III.; and there is also a tradition that the family is descended from the leche, or chirurgeon, of that monarch himself. It is remarkable that Nolan has been the family christian name, with one exception, during thirteen generations. Younger branch, extinct in 1694, Leche of Mollington, in this county. See Harl. MS. 2119, 50, quoted by Ormerod, ii. 385. ARMS.--_Ermine, on a chief indented gules three crowns or_. Present Representative, John Hurleston Leche, Esq. BARNSTON OF CHURTON, IN THE PARISH OF FARNDON. [Illustration] The descent of this family is not proved beyond Robert Barnston, of Churton, in the third year of Richard II. But Hugh de Barnston was lord of a moiety of Barnston in the twenty-first of Edward I. The pedigree was confirmed in the Visitations of 1613 and 1663-4. See Ormerod, ii. 408. ARMS.--_Azure, a fess indented ermine between six cross-crosslets fitchée or_. Thomas de Bernaston bore this coat, except that the crosses were argent. See the Roll of Arms of the Reign of Edward III. Present Representative, Roger Barnston, Esq. ANTROBUS OF ANTROBUS, BARONET 1815. [Illustration] This is an instance of an ancient family, which, having gone down in the world, has recovered itself by means of commercial pursuits, after centuries of comparative obscurity. Antrobus was sold by Henry Antrobus in the reign of Henry IV., and repurchased by Edmund Antrobus in 1808; he having proved himself a descendant of Henry, youngest son of Henry Antrobus above mentioned. Antrobus of Eaton Hall, in this county, is again a younger branch of this family. See Ormerod, i. 487; Lysons's Cheshire, p. 532; Debrett's Baronetage, ed. 1836, p. 383. ARMS.--_Lozengy or and azure, on a pale gules three estoiles of the first_.