[Illustration] Originally of Briscoe near Carlisle, where the family
were seated three generations before the reign of Edward I. Crofton,
which came by an heiress of that name, has been since the year 1390
the residence of the Briscoe family.
See Lysons, lxvi. 159.
ARMS.--_Argent, three greyhounds currant sable_.
In Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, i. 158, there is a pedigree of a
younger branch of this family, who were seated at Aldenham, in that
county, previous to 1736.
Present Representative, Sir Robert Briscoe, 3rd Baronet.