[Illustration] The Wollastons were lords of the manor of Wollaston
in the parish of Old Swinford and county of Stafford, (which they
sold to the Aston family in the time of Richard II.) at a very early
period: they afterwards settled at Trescot and Perton, in the parish
of Tettenhall, in the same shire. The pedigree in Nichols's
Leicestershire begins with Thomas Wollaston of Perton, "a person of
figure in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII." In 1709, William
Wollaston, Esq., the celebrated author of "The Religion of Nature,"
compiled an account of this family, which is printed in the History
of Leicestershire. He was the direct ancestor of the present family,
who have been also seated at Oncott, in Staffordshire, and
Finborough Hall, in Suffolk. Shenton was acquired early in the reign
of James I.
See Nichols's Leicestershire, iv. pt. 2. 541.
ARMS.--_Argent, three mullets pierced sable_.
Present Representative, Frederick William Wollaston, Esq.