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quarterings therein give “Sable three escalops within a bordure 
ingrailed argent, by the name of Strickland.” Now as this 
quartering is identical with the Sizergh Strickland arms, it follows 
that if Robert Lowther’s wife was the Bishop’s daughter, then her 
father was entitled to bear the Sizergh Strickland arms, thereby 
proving him to have been of that family, notwithstanding the 
absence of his name from the family archives. 
Nicolson and Burn, and also the Lowther Castle pedigree, make 
Mabel, daughter of Robert Lowther and his wife, marry a Lancaster 
of Sockbridge; it was therefore a grand-daughter, not the daughter 
of the Bishop, whose marriage into that family is alluded to by St. 
George’s Westmorland, 1615 visitation. 
THe Huttons or Hutron HA.L, PENRITH. 
Adam de Hoton, the founder of this family, first appears at 
Penrith in the reign of Edward I., in which also the manor of 
Penrith was granted to Anthony Beck, the warrior Bishop of 
Durham. Nowas Hoton, Houghton, Hutton (and other variations 
of the spelling of the name) was a common name in the north-east, 
it appears very probable that Adam of Hoton came from bishop 
Beck’s country as a trusty henchman of the Bishop to represent 
him in the manor, for the history of that period plainly indicates 
that the military bishop had occupation enough at home in 
repelling the aggressive Scots in the east, to satisfy even his 
combative proclivities. 
Supposing this to have been the origin of Adam de Hoton’s 
advent to Penrith, what would be more likely than that a slice of 
the manor of Penrith should be carved out for his maintenance, 
and thus originate the mense manor of Hutton Hall, Penrith ? 
My surmise that the John Hutton who was ambassador at 
Brussels in 1538, and who so diplomatically evaded the dangerous 
responsibility sought to be put upon him by Henry VIII.’s 
minister Cromwell, of recommending a fourth wife for the King, 
was the Penrith John Hutton of the period, was repeated in the 
Westmorland Note Book as a query, asking for information on the 
subject. The enquiry elicited the following cogent reply;— 
