[Illustration] Originally seated at Musgrave in Westmerland, and
traced to the time of King John, about the year 1204. After the
marriage of Sir Thomas Musgrave, who died in 1469-70, with the
coheiress of Stapleton of Edenhall, he removed to that manor, where
is preserved the celebrated glass vessel called the Luck of
Edenhall, well known from the Duke of Wharton's ballad:
"God prosper long from being broke
THE LUCK OF EDENHALL."
See Lysons, ccix. where it is engraved.
Younger branches. The Musgraves of Hayton Castle, in this county,
Baronet of Nova Scotia 1638; and the Musgraves of Tourin, in the
county of Waterford, Baronet 1782.
See Lysons, lxiv. 100; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 74, iv. 354; and St.
George's Visitation of Westmerland, printed 1853, p. 5, &c.
ARMS.--_Azure, six annulets or_.
Monsire de Musgrave bore this coat, as appears by the Roll of the
reign of Edward III., and Thomas Musgrave in that of Richard II.
(Rolls of those dates.)
Present Representative, Sir George Musgrave, 10th Baronet.