[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.