Stapleton was tried in Yorkshire at the time of the Popish Plot fabrication, and acquitted by the jury.

The 1st Baronet was descended from Sir Bryan Stapleton (c.1322–1394).

[4] He married twice but died without issue, when the baronetcy became extinct.

[1] His heir was his nephew Nicholas Errington (d.1716) of Ponteland, Northumberland, who adopted the surname and arms of Stapleton.

It became the seat of Miles Stapleton, 8th Baron Beaumont.