Dutton Family

B. will find the *Dutton* proviso in the statute 17 Geo. II. explained by reference to Ormerod's *Cheshire*, vol. i. pp. 36. 477. 484.; Lyson's *Cheshire*; Blount's *Antient Tenures*, 298., &c. An early grant by one of the Lacy family transferred to Hugh de Dutton and his heirs "magistratum omnium leccatorum et meritricum totius Cestriæ." In the fifteenth century the jurisdiction was claimed by the Dutton family, in respect of the lordship or manor of Dutton, and was then confined to a jurisdiction over the minstrels and musicians of the palatinate and city of Chester, who constituted, I presu…