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 in his "Worthies," has also noticed them, in the following remarkable expressions: "I have not met with a more noble family, measuring on the level of flat, and unadvantaged antiquity. They have ever borne a good respect to the church, and to learned men."

Sir Walter Aston, eldest son and heir of Sir Edward Aston, Kt. by Anne Lucy, only daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy, Kt. of Charlecote, in the county of Warwick, was born at Tixall, about the year 1580.