[Illustration] In the year 1275, the 4th of Edward I., Sir William
Heskayte, Knight, married the coheiress of Fytton, and thus became
possessed of Rufford, which has since remained the inheritance of
this ancient family.
Younger branch. Hesketh of Gwyrch Castle, Denbighshire, descended
from the Heskeths of Rossel, Lancashire, who were a younger branch
of the house of Rufford.
See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 426.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend sable three garbs or_, the ancient coat of
Fytton. Hesketh of Gwyrch Castle bears, _Or, on a bend sable between
two torteauxes three garbs of the field_.
Present Representative, Sir Thomas George Hesketh, 5th Baronet.