General Notes

Hugh de Dutton had the lands which his father held of the Baron of Halton, confirmed unto him by William, son of Nigel, Constable to Randle II, Earl of Chester. On that day when the said William and his son William did visit Hugh, son of Hudard, on his death bed at Kekwick, at which time Hugh gave unto William his coat of mail and his charginghorse, and Hugh, son of that Hugh, gave to William, the son, a palfrey and a sparrow hawk. This Hugh de Dutton had three sons--Hugh, who kept the name of Dutton; Adam, whose descendants took the name of Warburton, and Geoffrey, from whom the branch that took the name of Chedill were propagated.