[Illustration] The first recorded ancestor of this loyal family is
Ralph de Wigmore, lord of Lingen, in the county of Hereford, founder
of the Priory of Lyngbroke. His son and grandson John took the name
of Lingen: the latter is recorded in the Testa de Nevill as holding
various estates in Herefordshire, "of the old feoffment," that is,
by descent from the time of King Henry I. His lineal descendant, Sir
John Lingen, of Lingen and Sutton, in the county of Hereford, having
married in the reign of Edward IV. the daughter and coheiress
of Sir John Burgh, succeeded to considerable estates in Shropshire,
and to the manor of Radbrook, in the county of Gloucester, until
recently the inheritance of his descendants. Longnor, the ancient
seat of the Burtons, came into the family in 1722, by the marriage
of Thomas Lingen, Esq. of Radbrook, with Anne, only daughter of
Robert Burton, Esq. and sister and heir of Thomas Burton, of
Longnor, Esq. Their son assumed the name of Burton by Act of
Parliament in 1748.
From Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Barry of six or and azure, on a bend gules three roses
argent_.
Present Representative, Robert Burton, Esq.