ARMS.--_Argent, a gryphon segreant gules_. See in "Hearne's Curious Discourses," i. 262. edit. 1771, for the supposed origin of the Trafford Crest, "a man thrashing," which was however only granted about the middle of the 16th century. Present Representative, Sir Humphry Trafford, 2nd Baronet. HESKETH OF RUFFORD, BARONET 1761 [Illustration] In the year 1275, the 4th of Edward I., Sir William Heskayte, Knight, married the coheiress of Fytton, and thus became possessed of Rufford, which has since remained the inheritance of this ancient family. Younger branch. Hesketh of Gwyrch Castle, Denbighshire, descended from the Heskeths of Rossel, Lancashire, who were a younger branch of the house of Rufford. See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 426. ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend sable three garbs or_, the ancient coat of Fytton. Hesketh of Gwyrch Castle bears, _Or, on a bend sable between two torteauxes three garbs of the field_. Present Representative, Sir Thomas George Hesketh, 5th Baronet. TOWNLEY OF TOWNLEY. [Illustration] "This is not one of those long lines which are memorable only for their antiquity," says Whitaker, in his account of several remarkable members of this eminent family; who are descended from John del Legh, who died about the 4th of Edward III., and the great heiress Cecilia, daughter of Richard de Townley, whose family was of Saxon origin, and traced to the reign of Alfred. There is preserved at Townley, of which beautiful place Whitaker gives a charming account, an unbroken series of portraits from John Townley, Esq. in the reign of Elizabeth to the present time. See Leland's Itinerary, i. 96 and v. 102; Whitaker's Whalley, 271, 341, 484; and for the extinct branches of Hurstwood Hall, [1562-1794,] p. 384; and of Barnside [Edw. IV.--1739,] p. 395. For the origin of the Legh (properly Venables) family of Cheshire, see Leigh of Adlestrop, p. 92. ARMS.--_Argent, a fess and in chief three mullets sable_. Present Representative, Charles Townley, Esq. GERARD OF BRYAN, BARONET 1611. [Illustration] This family claims the same ancestor as the now extinct house of the Windsors Earls of Plymouth; the Carews also, both of England and Ireland, are descended, according to Camden, from the same progenitors: the pedigree therefore is extended to the Conquest, Otherus or Otho being the first recorded ancestor. The Lancashire branch were not settled there till the reign of Edward III., when they became possessed of Bryn, by marriage with the heiress of that name and place, From the Gerards of Ince descended the extinct Lords Gerard, of Gerard's-Bromley, and Sir William Gerard, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who died in 1581. See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 641; and Wotton's Baronetage, i. 51. ARMS.--_Argent, a saltire gules_. Present Representative, Sir Robert Tolver Gerard, 13th Baronet. STANLEY OF KNOWESLEY, EARL OF DERBY 1485; BARONET 1627.