[Illustration] The Pigotts were formerly seated at Chetwynd in this
county, which they inherited from the coheiress of Peshall in the
fourteenth century.
The family came originally from Cheshire; William Pigott of Butley
in the parish of Prestbury in that county, who died in 1376, was
grandfather of Richard Pigott of Butley who married the heiress of
Peshall. Chetwynd was sold about 1776, and the rectory of
Edgmond purchased by Thomas Pigott, Esq., in the reign of James I.
See Blakeway, p. 84; and Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Ermine, three fusils in fess sable_. The coat formerly borne
by this family, founded on the arms of Chetwynd, was, _Azure, a
chevron between three mullets or, on a chief ermine three fusils
sable_.
Present Representative, the Rev. John Dryden Pigott.