304 HYLTO.V. HYLTON, or HILTON. Barony by 1. Sir Robert llYUTOSM*) "f IIvlloii Castl', in llio Writ palatinate nf Diu'lnin, us i :t 1 1 v Called " Bumtt ot Ui/lt '«,"( s. and h. of Alexander II., of tbu Bai«e,(') In Elizabeth, which Alexander mi s. I. 1395, and h. of Sir Itolwrt ![ , of th • same, liy .loan, 1st il l. an I coheir of William DC 11 u.io.v, of liis«x fa, teuaut of the lung in chief) was, in right apparently of a tenancy descending to him frosu his said grandmother, sum. to l'nrl. n a Baron '1,0111) HYLTON) from 23 June (1295). 23 Kd. I., to 20 Aug. (12961, 21 I'M. 1. lie was also sum. 26 Jan. (1295, 6 1, A 21 Kd. I, (toatten.l the Kill!? nt Salisbury) and toother military musters '297 to 130 i. He m. Joaiiv") who <f. before Mm. He was Bring Kpiphany 1322 but d. before 13 .March following. II. 1322. .2. Alexander (IIyi.ton), Lord IIylton-, usually callul " Boron of llt/Hm" 21 But 1st tmrv. s. ami h. He was Hum (f) to Pari, as a Baron from 27 Jan. (1331/2), 0 lid. 111., to 22 Jan. (1335 ti), 9 Kd. HI. He ( a ) An able article on " the Barony of Hylton." by " V. Hylton Dyer Lotigstaffe," in the " Her and Gtn." vol. ie. S4S-SS3 (which explodes much that" h.t i previously been received), has been followed in the above account (b) '-The Arrmx off HitUoun was taken " (I far hour) in the English raid of 1319, where Robert Nevil, the Peacock of the north, fell. ( c ) "The Hyltons, from at least the 14th century to the extinction of the eldest male blood in 1746, were popularly known as Ha oni Bglton, or B'VOM nf Hylton, and on,' of their widows, who A in 1 150, necuis as Bnronttt The other Barons of th" Bishopries: were Hot titled in a .similar m.tnn. r. nor were those of the realm, with the exception of the Barm* "/ GregiUock and the Baron* of Stafford. The other Peers were merely turn, as Lords of this cr that place. The Peerage Commissioners were unable to discover the origin of the distinction which thus occurred in the families of Stafford and Greystock. They concluded that they had ly custom been well known by the title of Baron in respect of their L'tnd Bor-inits, and were, therefore, sum. by them without any necessary collection between them and their right to sit in Pari. They noticed that the persons called Baron* of W a hull or Wodkvli (now Odell) in Bedfordshire and Burma of fikt/rpenlwk in Yorkshire were not sum. to Pari, and that the Hyltotis were paiulleled in the | alatinate of Chester by the Baron* of Kinderton. There area few oi her northern parallels. The Blenkin- Bops, of I'cIIister, were sometimes called Borons ; the Whitfields, Earl* ', the Conyersep, Earl* oj Sovkburn, and the heiress of Kitz Marmaduke, Vountet* tf Ravens- hdm." "All persons holding /'tiffs in Barony or in nine! of the King or of Counts Palatine were Borons in the term use of the term, but only the greater Lords of the realm (at hast after the time of Henry III.) were admitted personally to Pari-, and probably similar restrictions might prevail as to the councils of the Bishop of Durham." "It is obvious that as Hylton Castle is 111 the Palatine, the popular term [Baron] could at the best be only in allusion to a certain slotus in reference to the Bishop and his councils long ago defunct." Two instances occur in this ' Episcopal Boron./" where the eldest son is called Boron Tli,llon in his father's lifetime; one is explained by the blindness of the father B"d the other by the estate having (by settlement become that of the son. See note "a" next above. ( d ) See vol i, p. ill, note " b," sub " Ap Adam," aa to this writ not constituting a regular summons to Pari. («) The statement in " Dugdale," &c, that he m. Margaret Thweng by whom he left two daughters and coheirs refers (not to hitn but) to Hobert Hilton, of »Swiue, in Yorkshire. £ee note u a " next above. (') "Considering that the summons was only issued before 1340 (he did not die until 1861) it may be assumed (1) that he had some heiress for a previous wife or (2) that hi still held some land of Hreton. 1 rath' r think that the last was the case and that he sold his possessions about the time that the summonses cease. It seems certain that he was then parting with some which were not held in chief." See note 'a" next above.
