[Illustration] Descended from Walter de Stirkland, Knight, so called
from the pasture-ground of the young cattle, called _stirks_ or
steers, in the parish of Morland, in this county; who was living in
the reign of Henry III. A good account of this family, derived from
original evidences, is given by Burn.
Sizergh, in the parish of Helsington, appears to have belonged to
the Stricklands in the reign of Edward I. Sir Walter de Strickland
had licence to empark there in the ninth of Edward III. During the
civil wars of the seventeenth century the head of this house was
loyal, while Walter, son of Sir William Strickland, of Boynton,
Baronet 1641, was one of Cromwell's pretended House of Peers. The
Stricklands of Boynton are supposed to be a younger branch of the
house of Sizergh. The Stricklands called Standish, of Standish, in
the county of Lancaster, represent the elder line, the present Mr.
Standish being the eldest son of the late Thomas Strickland, of
Sizergh, Esq.
See Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. p. 87; and Whitaker's Richmondshire,
vol. ii. p. 333.
ARMS.--_Sable, three escallops within a border engrailed argent_.
The present coat, but without the border, was borne by Walter de
Strykelande, in the reign of Richard II. Another coat, used in the
reign of Edward II. was _Argent, two bars and a quarter gules_.
(Rolls.) The Stricklands of Boynton bear, _Gules, a chevron or
between three crosses patée argent, on a canton ermine a stag's head
erased sable_.
Present Representative, Walter Strickland, Esq.