HESKETH. \rusard Ascuit, Hascoit, or Hasculfus, appears in Domesday as a capital tenant in the counties of Derby, Bucks, Oxford, AVarwick, &c. Camden, speaking of the name Askew, erroneously says, that it comes from Ascouth, and that " from the old Christian name Aiscuith, which in Latin was Hasculphusand Hastulphus, that is, Speedy-Help." The baronet's family claim to have been possessed of Hesketh, CO. Lancaster, from the Conquest, and the pedigree is deduced without hiatus from Rich, de Haskayth in the XIII. cent.

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