[Illustration] William Sebright, of Sebright, in Much Beddow, in
Essex, living in the reign of Henry II. is the ancestor of this
ancient family, who removed into this county at a very early period,
apparently after the marriage of Mabel Sebright with Katharine,
daughter and heir of Ralph Cowper, of Blakeshall, in the parish of
Wolverly, in which parish the Sebrights possessed lands in the sixth
year of Edward I. Besford was purchased about the reign of
Elizabeth.
See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. ii. p. 8; and Nash's Worcestershire,
vol. i. p. 78.
ARMS.--_Argent, three cinquefoils pierced sable_.
Present Representative, Sir John Gage Saunders Sebright, 9th
Baronet.