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He succeeded to his estate about 1248 andd was living in 1275.

Sir Geffrey de Dutton, alias de Buddeworth, a member of a line which became known as the Warburtons of Arley. Of record in 1218, he served in the Holy Land during the Crusades and had a mansion at Buddeworth. He adopted as his crest thehead of a Saracen, in memory of a victory in combat. (Carl Boyer, 3rd, "Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell," 2001, p. 91.)

He bought Preston nigh Dutton from Henry de Nuers and his wife Julian. This purchase was confirmed by Randle de Blendeville, Earl of Chester, about the time of the reign of King John. He also purchased LIttle Legh from Simon, son of Osberne, before the time of King John's reign. He also purchased the moiety of Barnton from William, son of Henry, son of Serlo, which Robert de Mesnilwarin held.

John constable and the baons of Halton granted to him and his heirs the magistracy over all the lechers and whores of all Cheshire. This magistracy had been granted originally to Richard Lacy, Constable of Cheshire, who had raised an amy of promiscuous rabble to relieve Randle de Blundevill, Earl of Chester, who was in his castle of Rothelent in Flintshire, under siege by the Welsh. When the Welsh heard the rabble coming they supposd it to be a great army, lifed the siege, and fled. That rabble was supposed to have consisted of players, fiddlers, and shoemakers. Apparently this led tto the Duttons of Dutton having control over licensing minstels in later years, with the results that those holding such license were exempt from the statute of rogues, 39 Eliz. cap. 4. Each Midsummers Day the Lord of Dutton would hold a court a Chester, and all the licensed minstrels would appear and renew their licenses, although the custom later was to license the fiddlers attendant on the revelers in bawdy houses and taverns. (Carl Boyer, 3rd, " Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell," 2002, p. 91.)

He lived during the reign of King John (1199-1216).

This family became the Warburtons of Arley in later generations.

He purchased Little Moldesworth for fifty marks from Robert, son of Matthew de Moldesworth, about 1250.

She brough lands in Suttersby in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, to the marriage.

Hugh de Dutton had the lands which his father Hugh held of the baron of Halton confirmed to him by William, son NIgell, constable to Randle the Second, Earl of Chester, and by William, his son. When William the father and William the son visited Hugh on his deathbed at Keckwick, Hugh gave William the father his coat of mail and charging horse and William the son a palfrey and a sparrowhawk. This was about at the end of the reign of Henry I, or 1135. Keckwick is about two miles west of Hatton.

Hugh was descended from Hodard (or Odard) who came to England with William the Conqueror and settled at Dutton (now in Budworth parish) in Cheshire, England, which was given to him by Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, as is given in Domesday. (Carl Boyer 3rd, "Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell," 2001, p. 90.)

William Mobberley died about 1308.

He bought the moiety of Nether Pever from Richard Bonstable in 1281.

He was the lord of the moiety of MObberley in Bucklow Hundred, Cheshire. He was living during the reign of King Henry III.

Augustine de Trethmete, who was Patrick de Mobberley's old brother, gave half of Mobberley to Patrick for his life. Patrick founded there a pirory of the regular canons of the order of St. Augustine about 1206. Patrick's son and heir, John, lived in Mobberley during the reign of King John. Raufe cannot be proved to be the son of John. (Carl Boyer, 3rd, "Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell," 2001, p. 175.)