In the time of King Henry I, Thomas de Multon, so called from his residence atMulton, in Lincolnshire, bestowed at the funeral of his father, in the ChapterHouse at Spalding (his mother, brothers, sisters,and friends being present), the church of Weston upon the monks of that abbey. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 388, Multon, BaronsMulton, of Egremont]