[Illustration] "In the Isle" of Axholme "be now there 4 gentilmen of
name, Sheffild, Candisch, Evers, and _Mounsun_. The lands of one
Bellewodde became by marriage to this Mounson, a younger son to old
Mounson of Lincolnshire. This old Mounson is in a maner the first
avauncer of his family." Thus wrote Leland in his Itinerary. The
Monsons however are clearly traced to the year 1378, as resident at
East-Reson, in this county. They were afterwards seated at South
Carlton, a village adjacent to Burton.
See Leland's Itin., i. fol. 42; Allen's Lincolnshire, ii. 57; and
Brydges's Collins, vii. 228.
ARMS.--_Or, two chevronels gules_.
Present Representative, William John Monson, 7th Baron Monson.