Ham.
_Croxton or Crostin of Lancashire_ (Vol. vii., p. 108.).--A full account of
the parish of Croston (not Crostin), which was formerly very extensive, but
is now divided into the six parishes of Croston, Chorley, Hesketh, Hoole,
Rumford, and Tarleton, may be found in Baines's _Lancashire_, vol. iii. pp.
395. to 440. There does not appear to have been a family of Croston of any
note, though the name is common in the county. In Burke's _Heraldic
Dictionary_, I find three families named Croxton; the principal one being
of Croxton in Cheshire, since temp. Hen. III. Their arms are--Sable, a lion
rampant arg. debruised by a bend componée or and gu.