[Illustration] Clifton is in the parish of Kirkham, and here William
de Clifton held ten carucates of land in the 42nd year of Henry
III., and was Collector of Aids for this county. His son Gilbert,
Lord of Clifton, died in the seventeenth of Edward II. On the death
of Cuthbert Clifton, in 1512, the manor was temporarily alienated
from the male line by an heiress; but by a match with the coheiress
of Halsall, before 1657, it again became the property of the then
principal branch of this ancient family, who were originally a
junior line descended from the Cliftons of Westby.
See Baines's Lancashire, iv. 404.
ARMS.--_Sable, on a bend argent three mullets pierced gules_: borne
in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. by Mons. Robert de
Clyfton. (Rolls.)
Present Representative, John Talbot Clifton, Esq.