[Illustration] Walter De Betton had a freehold estate at
Betton-Strange, near Shrewsbury, in the reign of Edward I. William
Betton, fourth in descent from Walter, was seated at Great Berwick
prior to the reign of Henry IV., and at his house the renowned
Hotspur lay during the night preceding the Battle of Shrewsbury.
The estate and mansion of Great Berwick continued with their lineal
descendants until sold in 1831, by Richard Betton, Esq. whose uncle
having succeeded to the estates of John Bright, Esq. assumed that
name, and was father of the present proprietor of Totterton Hall.
From the Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Argent, two pales sable, each charged with three
cross-crosslets fitchée or_.
Present Representative, the Rev. John Bright.
CLIVE (CALLED HERBERT) OF STYCHE, EARL OF POWIS 1804; BARON CLIVE IN
THE PEERAGE OF IRELAND 1762.
[Illustration] Although this family owe their elevation to the
military genius of the great Lord Clive, to whom the English nation
is so much indebted for its glory and power in the East, yet the
Clives have undoubted claims to antiquity both in Shropshire and
Cheshire, in which latter county, in the hundred of Northwich, is
Clive, from whence their ancestor Warin assumed his name in the time
of Henry III. About the reign of Edward II. the family removed to
Huxley, also in Cheshire, Henry de Clive having married the
coheiress; and again in the reign of Henry VI. on the marriage of
James Clive with the heiress of Styche, of Styche, they settled in
Shropshire at that place, which is in the parish of Moreton-Say, and
has remained uninterruptedly in the Clive family. The Earldom of
Powis is the result of the match with the heiress of Herbert, of
Powis Castle, in 1784.
See Ormerod's Cheshire, ii. 435, iii. 115; Blakeway, p. 140;
Brydges's Collins, v. 543; and Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess sable three mullets or_. In the fourth
year of Edward VI., three wolf's heads erased sable were added to
the field of the original coat. See Archdall's Lodge, vii. 80.
Present Representative, Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of
Powis.