[Illustration] In the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Edward
III., William de Wybergh, of Saint Bee's, in Cumberland, became
possessed of the manor of Clifton, in marriage with Elianor, only
daughter of Gilbert D'Engayne, whose family had held it from the
time of Henry II. It has ever since continued the seat and residence
of their descendants. In Cromwell's days the Wyberghs had the honour
to be considered delinquents; and in the succeeding century, in
1715, the head of the house was taken prisoner in consequence of his
allegiance to the house of Hanover.
Younger Branch. Lawson of Brayton, Baronet 1831.
See Burn's Westmorland, vol. i. p. 417.
ARMS.--_Sable, three bars or, in chief two estoiles of the last_.
Sometimes I find two mullets in chief, and one in base, used in
place of the estoiles.
Present Representative, William Wybergh, Esq.