[Illustration] "The Broughtons descend in the male line from one of
the most ancient families of the county of Chester, the Vernons of
Shipbrook. Richard de Vernon, a younger brother of this house, was
father of Adam de Napton, in the county of Warwick, whose issue
assumed their local name from Broughton in Staffordshire. The
pedigrees vary as to the exact point of connection, and, confused
and contradictory as the Shipbrooke pedigree is at this period,
there can be little hope of its being positively identified; but the
general fact of descent is allowed by all authorities."
See Ormerod's Cheshire, iii. 269; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 259; and
Erdeswick, p. 111.
ARMS.--_Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the last a cross of
the first_. In the reign of Richard II. Monsieur Thomas de Broughton
bore, _Azure, a cross engrailed argent_. (Roll.)
Present Representative, Sir Henry Delves Broughton, ninth
Baronet.