For Molyneux of Teversal, co. Notts, Baronet 1611, extinct 1812, descended from the second son of Sir Richard Molyneux, the hero of Agincourt, see Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, p. 269; and Wotton's Baronetage, i. 141. ARMS.--_Azure, a cross moline or_. The Irish branch bears a _fleur-de-lis or_ in the dexter quarter. Present Representative, William Philip Molyneux, 4th Earl of Sefton. HOGHTON OF HOGHTON-TOWER, BARONET 1611. [Illustration] 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. [Illustration] 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. TRAFFORD OF TRAFFORD, BARONET 1841. [Illustration] Trafford is in the parish of Eccles, and here the ancestors of this family are said to have been established even before the Norman Conquest. The pedigree given in Baines's Lancashire professes to be founded on documents in possession of the family, but some of it is certainly inaccurate, and cannot be depended on: Ralph de Trafford, who is said to have died about 1050, is the first recorded ancestor, but this is before the general assumption of surnames, which, as Camden observes, are first found in the Domesday Survey. On the whole, it may be assumed that the antiquity of the family is exaggerated, though the name no doubt is derived from this locality at an early period. See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 110.