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Compendium
of Norton Arms with pedigrees |
Yorkshire
The arms of
Conyers which is also shared by the Nortons of York. It appears
that after Robert Conyers married Margaret Norton a bend was added.
Norton, [North.Umberland.]
az. a maunch erm.
Norton, alias Conyers, [Yorks.] az. a maunch erm. a bendlet gu.
Norton, [Suff. and Yorks.] az. a mauuch erm. ; over all a bend
gu.Crest, a Moor's head, couped at the shoulder, ppr.
Roger Norton-Conyers
William Norton
of Belingham co Worcester. 
Azure
a maunch ermine on a chief or a lion passant sable
Crest
A tiger's head erased or in the mouth a broken spear also or
Attributed in the Harl MS 1069
(There is a Bellingham 20 miles
East of Leicester)

Old Richard
Norton with his arms in the background.
az a maunch erm over all a bend gu

(Not shown)
Fletcher NORTON
Lord GRANTLEY
Baron of Markenfield, Yorks
Creation 9 April 1782
Residence Grantley Park Yorks.
az a maunch erm over all a bend gu Crest a Moor's head couped
at the shoulders wreathed round the temples with ivy ppr tied
ar and az Supporters dexter a lion or collared az buckled gold
pendent thereto an escutcheon of the arras sinister a grifh u
ar collared an escutcheon pendent thereto as the dexter Motto
Avi numerantur avorum
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Conyers-Norton
Norton Conyers as a village was established by Roger Conyers who
married Margaret Norton Margaret
Norton inherited a great deal of land and when she married Roger
Conyers, he took the title "Norton" and his son was known
as Adam Norton. Thereafter his decendants were variously referred
to as Norton or Conyers-Norton.
Link to more history of the Yorkshire Nortons
The
original Conyers arms are az. a maunch erm.
It
may be that the original Norton arms belonging to Margaret Norton
used a bend device that was added over the Conyers manch in Robert
Conyers-Nortons arms.
However,
the Sharpenhoe Nortons claim descent from
the original Sir de Nourvile that came with William the Conqueror.
In addition, they specified that they did not descend from the
Nortons of York. Iit appears that in 1634 the Sharpenhoe
Nortons devised arms derived from Norvyle and a pedigree that
linked with this original line of Norvile. The Sharpenhoe Nortons
had the power to make it stick, but their arms are not seen before
1600 and never outside of Sharpenhoe or London.
The
John Hatley Norton family displayed the Norton
bend arms and claimed a relationship with the Yorkshire Norton.
These arms are mixed closely with the Norton-Conyers arms.
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Roger
Conyers-Norton Esq.
b.abt 1300 Durham, Eng
m. Maragret Norton daughter and heiress of Richard Norton
Norton
Roger formerly CONYERs E HL bore azure a maunch ermine over
all a bend gules
Shirlev j F
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Adam
Norton
b.abt 1330
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Richard
Norton
b.abt1360 Sawley, York, Eng
d.20 Dec 1420
m.Katherine Manningham
children:
John Norton b. abt 1390
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Richard
Norton
b.abt1388 Sawley, York, Eng
d.22 Sep 1438
m. Elizabeth Tempest
children:
Elizabeth Norton b.1415 m. Richard Goldbourogh
Margaret Norton b. 1417 m. John Stapleton Knt
John Norton b. 1427 |
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John
Norton
b.abt 1415 Norton Conyers, York, Eng
d. 4 Oct 1484
m. Jane Pigot
children:
John Norton b. 1458
Ann Norton b. 1465 m.Robert Wyville |
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Sir
John Norton
b.abt 1442 Norton Conyers, York, Eng
d. 27 Aug, 1520 Wath, York, Eng
m. Margaret Ward
children:
John
Henry
Margaret
Ann
Jane
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Sir
John Norton
b.abt 1469 Norton Conyers, York, Eng
d. 16 Jan, 1656
m. Ann Ratcliffe
children:
Chirstopher
Marmaduke
John
Thomas
William
Richard b.1594
Isabell
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Richard
Norton Esq. (Old Richard)
b. 1494 Norton Conyers, York, Eng
d. 9 Apr, 1584 Spanish Flanders
m. Susanne Neville
Richard
Norton, known as "Old Norton", was the head of
his illustrious house, which remained faithful to the Catholic
religion. Despite this fact he held positions of influence
during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, was Governor
of Norham Castle under Mary, and in 1568-69 was sheriff
of Yorkshire. He had been pardoned for joining in the Pilgrimage
of Grace, but he and his brother Thomas, his nine sons,
of whom Christopher was the seventh, and many of their relatives
hastened to take part in the northern uprising of 1569.
He was attainted and fled to Flanders with four of his sons,
two of his sons were pardoned, another apostatized,
children:
Katherine
Claire
Francis - the eldest, was a fugitive with his father;
John - the second, was of Ripon, was not implicated;
Edmund - the third, was ancestor of the Lords Grantly. He
was not implicated;
William - the fourth, was tried with his uncle Thomas and
Brother Christopher but was pardoned;
George - the fifth, was a fugitive with his father;
Thomas - the sixth, died without issue, was not implicated;
Chirstopher - the 7th, was hanged /quartered with his uncle
Thomas, at Tyburn, 27 May 1570;
Marmaduke -the 8th, pleaded guilty but was pardoned and died
at Stranton 4th Nov. 1594. He was kept a prisoner in the Tower,
however, until 1572.
Sampson - he ninth, and youngest son, was a fugitive with
his father and was at Mechlin in 1571, then a pensioner of
the King of Spain.
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Edmund
Norton Esq.
(Old Richard)
b. 1534 Norton Conyers, York, Eng
d. 1610
m. Cecilia Boynton |
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William
Norton Esq.
b. 1555 Sawley, York, Eng
d. 26 Sep 1644
m. Margaret Welbury |
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William
Norton Esq.
b. 8 Nov 1589 Sawley, York, Eng
d. 3 Nov 1645
m. Ann Hilliard |
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Welbury
Norton Esq.
b. 27 Dec 1641 Sawley, York, Eng
d. 16 June 1706
m. Catherine Norton (daughter of Thomas Norton, Langethorn,
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Thomas
Norton Esq.
b. 28 Apr 1656 Sawley, York, Eng
d.
m. Mary Fletcher |
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Thomas
Norton Esq.
b.1686 Grantley, York, Eng
d. 22 Feb 1719
m. Elizabeth Sergeantson |
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Fletcher
Norton Baron Markenfield
b.23 June 1716, Grantley, York, Eng
d. 1 Jan 1789
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NORTON CONYERS,
in the parish of Wath, wapentake and liberty of Allertonshire; 3
miles N. of Ripon. This was once the seat of the family of the Nortons;
of whom Richard Norton was Chief Justice of England, about the year
1400: from him descended Richard Norton, who, with his sons, in
1569, engaged in the religious rebellion of the Earls of Northumberland
and Westmoreland, against Queen Elizabeth, which was soon suppressed.
Mr. Norton, and his sons, with many others, were executed, and the
estate given to the Musgraves.
"Thee,
Norton! with thine eight good sons,
"They doom'd to dye, alas! for ruth,
"Thy reverend locks thee could not save,
"Nor them their faire and blooming youth!"
Norton Conyers
had been the property of the venerable Richard Norton, who with
three sons, engaged in 1569, in the religious, rebellion of the
earls of Northumberland and Westmorland, against Queen Elizabeth.
To inspire their followers with fit enthusiasm, they put into the
hands of Norton, a flag, painted with the live wounds of our Saviour.
It seems to have been a second Pilgrimages of Grace like the insurrection
under Aske. This was soon suppressed. Mr. Norton and his sons were
executed among multitudes of others, and his estate granted to a
Musgrave, who disposed of it to an ancestor of the present owner.
The
location of the earliest Nortons in Yorkshire
Info
is taken from the IGI.
I've used just he earliest
entries 1200-1500.
York East riding
The only Norton town is shown on the border with North Riding.
Norton There is 1 Norton surname in Norton 1540.
York North
Riding
Thirsk has 1 Norton 1561.
Norton-Conyers is the seat of the Norton-Conyers family.
This is actually Conyers DNA. Around 1350 a Roger Conyers marries
Margaret Norton who inherits Norton family land. Conyers takes the
surname of Norton. The Conyers line is from Durham.
There are 2 Norton in Norton-conyers 1363 and 1540.
York West
Riding
Whitkirk-Rothwell-Topcliff-Dewsbury:
This group of parishes have 9 Nortons,
Whitkirk = 1580, 1580, 1594,
Rothwell = 1598,
Topcliff = 1500, 1502,
Dewsbury = 1500, 1506, 1502.
Otley-Adel: 1 Norton Adel 1438
Elland-Saurby: 1 Norton, 1594
Norton- none
Doncaster: 3 Nortons in Doncaster; 1564, 1541, 1541.
Norton of Cooksditch,
Faversham, Kent
The
connection with the family ended when Richard Dryland, who owned
the house in the late 15th century, left only two daughters. One
of them, Katherine, inherited it and married Reginald Norton. An
ancient carved panel bearing the Norton arms at 19 Court Street
is thought to have come from Cooksditch.
Their first
son, and heir, was John Norton, Mayor in 1499 and 1500. He was made
a Knight of the Bath on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Arthur
on 17 November 1501. He bore arms:
Azure, a maunch
ermine, over all a bendlet gules
On the left
in the chancel of the Parish Church is a fine stone tomb intended
for his widow, Lady Jane Norton. In the event it was never used,
and remains unmarked, because she re-married and was buried elsewhere.
Reginald and
Katherines second son, William Norton (Mayor in 1527), lived
in the house, but some time after his death it was sold to a Mr
Parsons, who soon sold it on to a Mr Ashton.
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Argent
on a bend between two lions rampant sable three escallops of the
field
Crest A greyhound's head or gorged with a fesse engrailed between
two bars gules the fesse ringed behind of the first. Burke's
Armory
John Hatley Norton arms
note, the lions should be black

Arms of Robert
Norton of Dublin
(Top arrow points to Norton arms. The bottom arrow points to the
Conyers-Norton arms. apparently these different family's intermarried.)
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Bend
Arms
These arms are found in Worstershire, Buckingham
and Cambridge. They are linked to the Yorkshire Nortons by the John
Hatley Norton family.
Thomas Norton b.1565 of Kingsnorton (near Evesham) Worstershire
(Kings Norton was part of the King's forest in the district of Bromsgrove)
Robert Norton of Sherington, Buckinghamshire
William Norton of Sherington (Sherington is 10 miles NW of
Sharpenhoe)
Christopher Norton of Hinxton, Cambridge 1619 (Sfe Harl MS
1043.)
Robert Norton of Dublin, Ireland
John
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This family linked itself to the Yorkshire Nortons.
The pedigree
of Norton of Sherington was recorded at the Visitation of Buckinghamshire
in 1634.
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Norton Esq. b.abt 1495 of Kingsnorton, Worstershire |
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Norton b.abt 1625 |
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Thomas
Norton Esq. b.abt1565 d.1600 Elizabeth of Hingston,
Cambridge and Hudson, Suffolk
Married Margaret St. Loe, only daughter of Sir William St.
Loe Capt of Queen Elizabeth's Guard |
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Norton b.abt1595 d.1642 of Sherington, Bucks and
Hudson, Suffolk
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Brett
Norton Esq. b.1627 of Sherington, Bucks
Married Sarah Lamby 1647 |
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Robert Norton of Sherington, Bucks, Major of Shoemberg's
Regt of Horse at Boyne, and a distinguished officer of Marlborough's
campaign. Died in Ireland 1730
Married Anne Smithwick 26 Aug 1716 d. Dublin 1756 |
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Robert
Norton b.1719 d.1778
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Brett
Norton Esq. Barrister at law and one of the Commissioners
of Bankrupts b.1747 d.1791
M.Bridget Eife of Donnymore, Meath, Ireland |
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Robert
Norton Esq. of Dublin Barrister
at law b.abt 1775 |
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Norton Esq. Capt 34th Regt. Served in six campaigns under
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Thomas Norton
of Kingsnorton and ends with William Norton of Sherington who
by Anne his wife daughter of Sir John Brett had issue a son Brett
Norton 7 yeares ouldand upwards 1634 and a daughter Margaret JIarl
MS 1102 fo 76
Kings Norton
derives its name from the Norman period, meaning 'north farmland
or settlement' bellonging to or held by the king,when Kings Norton
was part of the King's forest in the district of Bromsgrove, however
the Domesday Book records the village as 'Nortune', noting that
even in Anglo-Saxon England immediately before the Conquest the
land the village stood on was owned by the King. Kings Norton
is now divided into several parts with the ancient centre, based
around the village green, still intact.
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Found
in Canterbury, Kent
and Sommerset
ar
on a bend cottised betw two lions ramp sa three escallops or
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Variation
Norton, [Somers.] ar. on a bend, cottised, betw. three lions ramp.
sa. as many escallops or.
Norton, ar.
on a bend, cottised, betw. two lions ramp. sa. three escallops of
the first. ,
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Norton
of Norton in Chart Sutton
Stephen Norton from 1377 - 1399
ar a chev betw three crescents az
Henry Norton
of CharIton, Wantage, Berkshire
Visitation of Berkshire, 1623
ar
a chev betw three crescents az
also
Norton of Charlton, co.Berks Visitation 1626, 1665
ar. a chevron betw three cresents az.
Gregory
Norton of Charlton, Berks Justice of the peace 1601 (Hungerford,
england)

ar
a chev betw three crescents az Crest out of a ducal coronet az
a demi lion ramp double queued ar
SIR Gregory Norton
(c.1603-1652), MP and regicide, was the son of Henry Norton
of CharIton, Wantage, Berkshire, and his wife Elizabeth, fourth
daughter of William Nelson of Chaldeworth, Berkshire. He was created
a baronet of Ireland 27 April 1624

Arms of Sir
Dudley Norton,
Knight, Principal Secretary of State in Ireland under Charles
I in 1612
Found
in Kent

ar
on a chev betw three lions ramp se as many bezants
Found
in Kent

Norton
gules a chev erm Another ar charged with
three crescents sa
Found
in Kent

Cadet Branch
of Norton
location
not given

Norton, ar.
a chev. gu. betw. three barrels sa. hooped or, standing on their
bottoms.
location
not given

Below is the seal of Francis Norton.
Possibly Francis Jr. died Milford 23 February 1666/7 and was the
son of Francis Norton, son of William Norton and Denis Chomeley
who were also the parents of Thomas Norton of Guilford, CT.
Another candidate
is Frances Norton came to Portsmouth, Mass., from an unknown part
of England in 1631 and later removed to Charlestown in the same
colony. His wife Mary, gave him at least five children, Abagail,
Mary, Elizabeth, Deborah, and Sarah, and possibly others.
Click
for a larger picture.

This is a
reproduction of a seal with the signature of Francis Norton.

Seal of Francis
Norton
Francis NORTON died on 27 Jul 1667 in Charleston, Maine. one of
5 stewards of a large company sent by Capt John Mason to New Hampshire
about 1630. Took freemans oath in 1642, moved from Pescataqua
in 1634 to Charleston, Maine
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Stephen
Norton from 1377 - 1399
NORTON-PLACE
is an antient manor and mansion in this parish, though now and for
many years since made use of only as a farm-house, situated about
half a mile northward from Chart-place. It was antiently the property
and residence of the family of Norton, to whom it gave name;
and in the south windows of this church there were formerly the essigies
of Stephen Norton, who lived in king Richard
II.'s reign, with his arms, Argent, a chevron between three crescents
azure, on his tabard or surcoat, and Philipott says that
he had found in a tournament of the Kentish gentlemen one of this
name, in a tabard of the arms above-mentioned, encountering one Christmas,
of East Sutton, not far distant, who was in like manner habited in
a surcoat charged with his arms, expressive of his name, viz. Gules,
upon a bend sable, three wassail bowls, or; which coat was likewise
depicted in the south windows of Sutton church.
But
the partitions inherent to gavelkind, so diminished the patrimony
of this family, that in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and afterwards,
they were obliged to sell off several parts of it at different times,
all which came at length into the possession of Sir Ed ward Hales,
created a baronet in 1611, whose grandson and heir of the same name
in 1660 purchased of the two coheirs of the family of Norton, married
to Denne and Underwood, the seat itself, with the remainder of the
land belonging to it, by a fine then levied by them and their husbands
for that purpose. His trustees about the year 1670, conveyed it,
with the manor of Sutton Valence and Chart before-mentioned, and
sundry other premises, to Sir William Drake, of Amersham, with which
it was in like manner sold, about the year 1708, to Sir Christopher
Desbouverie, whose daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Bouverie, of Teston,
after the death of her two brothers, and a partition of her father's
estates between herself and her sister, is now entitled to it.
In
the reign of Elizabeth there were five guilds in Maidstone viz the
artificers the victuallers the drapers the mercers and the cordwainers
Stephen Norton of a family anciently seated at Norton Place
Chart Sutton belonged to the Maidstone guild of artificers in 1474.
It was probably his son of the same name who was a noted bell founder
in the time of Henry VII and Henry VIII and who was buried in All
Saints Church A bell with his name upon it still hangs in the church
tower of Chisel borough in Somerset.
The following
is submitted by Abba Seraphim Metropolitan of Glastonbury
within the British Orthodox Church, part of the Coptic Orthodox
Patriarchate of Alexandria.
The
ancient arms of the Norton family of Chart Sutton, near
Maidstone, Kent, are agent, a chevron between three crescents
azure.
Strangely they are recorded in pedigrees and Visitations
outside the county of Kent, firstly in the Middlesex Pedigrees
collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian Ms. No. 1551, fo.
79 made sometime after 1624 and, secondly, in the Berkshire
Visitation made in 1623 by Henry Chitting (Chester Herald)
and John Philipot (Somerset Herald),
Ms. Ashmole 852, pp. 278 & 279.
In
the former the family is represented by Stephen
Norton of London and in the latter by Gregory
Norton of Charlton in Wantage, Berkshire, who was created
a baronet of Ireland on 27 April 1624. However, the Visitation
of Kent taken in 1574 by Robert Cooke, Clarenceaux King
of Arms, lists the arms of Norton as one of the quarterings
of the Samson family derived from Joane daughter and
Coheire of Norton of the Manner of Norton. There is
also a monumental brass of Paul Iden (Pawle Yden)
in the Sydney Chapel of Penshurst Church. Dating from 1514
this includes a quartering of the Norton arms which the
Iden family inherited and passed on to their descendants,
one of whom was the poet, P. B. Shelley. John Philipots
manuscript notes, from about 1603 (Harleian Ms. 3917) also
lists the Norton arms as one of those inherited by the Iden
family.
Writing
in 1776 Thomas Philipot, the antiquary and author of Villare
Cantianum states that within the confines of the parish
of Chart Sutton there is an ancient manor and mansion
called Norton Place
which gave name to as ancient
a family as any in this track. He also states
that in the south windows of the church there were effigies
of Stephen Norton, who flourished in King Richard
IIs time and that he had found one of his
name depicted in an armorial tabard of the Norton arms in
a tournament of Kentish gentlemen.
If
we are to give credence to Thomas Philipots chronology
we are dealing with the period 1377-1399 when Stephen Norton,
the celebrated Kentish bell founder and ancestor of the
Chart Sutton Nortons was known to be extant. During the
fifteenth century the Nortons continued to play a significant
part in local affairs: Stephen Norton of Chart, gentleman
being listed among those who took part in Jack Cades
rebellion of 1450.
Cadet
branches some being designated as yeomen sprang
up in nearby Boughton Monchelsea, Sutton Valence, Smarden,
Borden, Egerton, Biddenden, Pluckley and Bedthersden. By
the early seventeenth century the senior branch was ruined
through the partition of their lands according to the peculiarly
Kentish law of gavelkind, though a cadet branch achieved
a baronetcy in the person of Sir Gregory Norton (1594-1652).
He also achieved notoriety as one of the judges who sat
at the trial of King Charles I and as a signatory of the
kings death warrant. Although rewarded with the former
royal palace of Sheen, it was restored to the Crown at the
Restoration; whilst his son, Sir Henry Norton, a Royalist,
was disinherited by his father and died in obscurity, when
the baronetcy is presumed to have become extinct. It is
at this time that the Norton crest first appears in the
1623 Visitation of Berkshire, being described as out of
a ducal coronet azure, a demi-lion rampant, double queued,
argent.
On
27 June 1990 His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, as Earl Marshal
and Hereditary Marshal of England, issued his warrant authorising
the Kings of Arms to grant arms to the late Henry George
Norton, gentleman (born at Ashford, Kent 1873; died at London
1944) and his descendants, who was himself descended from
a cadet branch of the Chart Sutton Nortons. After the lapse
in the use of arms for so many generations suitable differences
were required as marks of cadency. This is often done by
the alteration or reversal of colours or by the transposition
or substitution of charges, though still enabling the original
arms to be recognisable.
By
Letters Patent dated 1 August 1991 Garter Principal King
of Arms (Sir Alexander Colin Cole) and Norroy & Ulster
King of Arms (John Brooke-Little) granted to Henry George
Norton (1873-1944) and his descendants the following arms:
azure a chevron between two bells in chief and a crescent
in base gold and for a crest, in a crest coronet or a demi-lion
double queued azure holding in the dexter paw a bell gold.
It will be seen that the 1991 grant is a reversal of colours
and metals with the substitution of gold for silver and
of bells for two of the crescents, but is still clearly
recognisable as the arms of Norton (ancient). In the crest
the Kings of Arms have again replaced silver with gold and
reversed the sequence of colours and metals, differencing
the double-tailed demi-lion by giving him a golden bell.
The introduction of the bells is an allusion to the three
surviving bells of Stephen Norton the bell founder and also
provides a link between shield and crest which was not previously
there.
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for a larger version

In the
same Letters Patent the Kings of Arms also granted to the
Reverend William Henry Hugo Newman-Norton (born 1948), grandson
of Henry George Norton (1873-1944) the heraldic badge, a
seraph or visaged proper, being an illusion to his religious
name as Abba Seraphim Metropolitan of Glastonbury
within the British Orthodox Church, part of the Coptic Orthodox
Patriarchate of Alexandria.
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Stephen
(Robert) Norton
"Stephen Norton of Boughton Monchelsea (died 1500)
left his principle messuage in Boughton in which I now
dwell, which we can assume is Wyarton (Wierton) House,
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George
Norton
b.abt 1485
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William
Norton
b.abt 1515
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John
Norton of
Wyarton and his wife, Joan St. Leger.
b.abt 1540
m.Dorthy Farnefold
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Henry Norton of CharIton,
Wantage, Berkshire
b.abt 1573
m.Elizabeth, fourth daughter of William Nelson of Chaldeworth,
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SIR
Gregory NORTON, (c.1603-1652), of Buckinghamshire,
MP and regicide.
bapt. 15 December 1594
m. Martha Drew, 6 February 1590 Merton, Surrey, daughter of
Bradshaw Drew of Densworth near Chichester, Sussex.
Baronet of Ireland on 27 April 1624
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Gregory
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Henry
Norton,disinherited because of his opposition to the king's
trial and execution.
bapt. 2 January 1632 was recorded at Saint Andrew, Holborn
d.
m. Mabella, daughter of Sir Richard
Norton, 1st baronet of Rotherfield, in the Parish of
East Tisted, Hampshire. 14 October 1656 at St. Margaret's, Westminster,
(Although sharing a surname and a baronetcy dating from 1622,
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Elizabeth
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Horden
Norton
bapt. 23 April 1593
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Sir
Dudley Norton,
Knight, Principal Secretary of State in Ireland under Charles
I in 1612.
b.
m.Margaret MASTERSON, the daughter of Sir Thomas MASTERSON
her
first marriage was to Roger MAINWARING.
Arms
argent on a chevron azure between three crescents of the second
a crescent of the first for difference impaling ermine a chevron
azure between three garbs or
The HonH
Sr Dudly Norton Knt principal Secretary to the State and one
of the privie Councell departed this mortall Life the 27 1
of July 1634. He had to Wife Margr Dr of Sr Thomas Masterson
of Fearnes in the County of Waxford K by whome he had Issue,
Dudly Norton his only son who hath to Wife Katherin Dr of
Capt Hercie Wolferstou of Statfould Esq in Staffordshire by
whome he hath Issue Henry Norton. She was relict of John Bromfeild
of Bullthornes in Staffordshire. Margaret wife of S Dudly
Norton before mar to Roger Manneringe sometime Remebrancer
of the Exchequer of Ireland. S Dudly Norton was buried in
tlie Choire of Christ Church Dublin y 30th of July. source
Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica
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Dudley
Norton
b.
m. Katherin Daughter of Capt Hercie Wolferstou of Statfould
Esq in Staffordshire by whome he hath Issue Henry Norton She
was relict of John Bromfeild of Bullthornes in Staffordshire.
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Henry
Norton source
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Robert
Norton
b.1719
d.1778 (The above Henry Norton is listed as an only son. Not
sure where this reference came from)
m. Sidney Sandys daughter of Patrick Sandys Esq. of Dublin |
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Francis
Norton
baptized 20
October 1578
at
Boughton Monchelsea
m.Dorthy Farnefold |
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Sibyl
Norton, of Boughton Monchelsea
m. 29 August 1584 Robert Perce of Egerton at St. Margaret's,
Canterbury |
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Elizabeth
Norton
baptised 9
January 1574/5 at
Boughton Monchelsea |
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Thomas
Norton Chepsted, Kent
We have the will of Thomas Norton of Chipstead dated 1479/80
and can verify that he is the father of Alexander Norton of
Gouldhurst & Borden, gentleman, who died 1513-15; John
Norton of Tonbridge, gentleman, who died 1525/6 although no
mention is made of the third son, Thomas Norton of Chipstead.
His existence, however, can be verified by the 1513 will of
Alexander Norton of Gouldhurst.
Thomas
Norton of Chepstead inaccurately gives him as
son of the elder of the two siblings called Stephen Norton,
whereas he was the son of John Norton of Borden, who died
1471/2. Thomas Norton actually describes himself as of
Borden in his will of 1479/80 and makes no reference
to any property in Chipstead, which is in Chevening near Sevenoaks
in the west of the county.
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Alexander
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John
Norton attained ob. s.p. |
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John
Norton of Tonbridge, gentleman, who died 1525/6 |
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Thomas
Norton ob. s.p. of Newington next Sittingbourne
We also have the 1566 will of Thomas Norton of Newington next
Sittingbourne, who describes himself as one of the sons
and heirs of John Norton, late of the parish of Tonbridge
gent, deceased. He refers to Martin Drew of Tonbridge,
who married his sister Ursula Norton, who is merely an unnamed
female in the Midlesex pedigree. He refers to his wellbeloved
cousin Edward Norton and lists his daughters, Katherine
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Thomas
Norton
m. ---- of Tooth of Chepsted |
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John
Norton ob. s.p. |
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Edward
Norton of Newington in Kent
m. Christian daughter of Richard Norton and Cossen of Sir John
Norton Kt. |
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Stephen
Norton of London
m. Joane daughter of John Martin of Paddock, Kent
It has not been possible so far to trace Stephen Norton of London
although he is named in the 1566 will of Thomas Norton of Newington
and again in the 1573 will of his maternal grandfather, Richard
Norton of Halstow, gent. In this will it is clear that he is
under 21 in 1573. There is no will for him and we know nothing
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Thomas
Norton
John Norton
Elizabeth Norton
Mary Norton
Jane Norton |
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John
Norton
Edward Nortons son, John Norton (whom the pedigree notes
as having died without issue) appears in a baptismal entry in
the registers of Newington next Sittingbourne for August 1564,
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Thomas
Norton
m. Ellen Widow of Hugh Yardley
Another son mentioned in the pedigree, is Thomas Norton, who
married Ellen, widow of Hugh Yardley. His baptismal entry appears
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Elizabeth
Norton
Elizabeth Norton, was baptised at Newington in 1565. She married
firstly, Valentine French at Davington in 1585 and secondly,
Edward Whitegreve at Canterbury in 1598 and died herself in
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Stephen
Norton of the mannor of Norton,
This refers to Stephen Norton of Chart next Sutton Valence (who
died in 1509) whose daughter, Elizabeth, married her cousin
Thomas Norton of Smarden in about 1509/10.
Stephen Norton of the mannor of Norton (who died
in 1509/10), is incorrectly shown as the son of Thomas Norton
when we know from the extant wills that his father was Stephen
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Elizabeth
Norton
m. Thomas Norton of Smarden in about 1509/10.
Elizabeth Norton and Thomas Norton of Smarden are shown as having
a sole son, Allexander Norton, who is not mentioned in the will
of his paternal grandfather, Stephen Norton the elder of Smarden
(died 1522/3). The only son mentioned is Anthony Norton although
Thomas Nortons will (1518) refers to the maintenance
of my sons at school and provides that if they all
die his money should be divided evenly between his brothers.
The 1516 will of Margaret Lambe, a servant and probably a kinswoman
to Thomas and Elizabeth Norton, makes bequests of pewter dishes
to Elienore, Avice and John Norton, who are most probably the
eldest children of Thomas and Elizabeth Norton. If this surmise
is correct Anthony Norton, the second and only surviving son
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NORTON,
SIR Gregory (c.1603-1652), MP and regicide, was the son of Henry
Norton of CharIton, Wantage, Berkshire, and his wife Elizabeth,
fourth daughter of William Nelson of Chaldeworth, Berkshire. He
was created a baronet of Ireland 27 April 1624, aged about twenty-one,
probably through the influence of his uncle, Sir Dudley Norton,
secretary for Ireland, and admitted to Gray's Inn in 1629, being
a contemporary there of John Bradshaw [q.v.], who was to preside
over the king's trial, John Cook [q.v.], who was to prosecute the
king, and John Alured the regicide [q.v.]. From then until the end
of 1640 at least he resided at Hampdens Manor, Penn, Buckinghamshire,
moving in 1640 to West Thomey near Chichester in Sussex.
He achieved
notoriety as one of the judges who sat at the trial of King Charles
I and as a signatory of the kings death warrant. Although
rewarded with the former royal palace of Sheen, it was restored
to the Crown at the Restoration; whilst his son, Sir Henry Norton,
a Royalist, was disinherited by his father and died in obscurity,
when the baronetcy is presumed to have become extinct. It is at
this time that the Norton crest first appears in the 1623 Visitation
of Berkshire, being described as out of a ducal coronet azure, a
demi-lion rampant, double queued, argent.
He was JP for
West Sussex from 1640 until his death, and was elected MP for Midhurst
in a by- election to the Long Parliament in 1645, his fellow-MP
being William Cawley the regicide [q.v.]. There is evidence of their
closely co-ordinating their activities. As a prominent parishioner
of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Norton was also a member of the committee
for the City of Westminster, along with his close friend and relation,
Humphrey Edwardes, the regicide [q.v.].
Though not a
commanding presence in the House, Norton was a devoted committee
man. He served in the committee concerning accounts within weeks
of election as an MP, later joining the committee for martial law
and the committee for Irish affairs, at which he attended assiduously,
becoming a major figure. After Pride's Purge, Norton's importance
in the Commons increased dramatically: He was immediately added
to the committee for the revenue and the committee for compounding.
On 23 December 1648 he joined the committee for proceedings against
the king, the first of the Commons committees which laid the groundwork
for the king's trial and execution. On 6 January he attended the
first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory to
the trial, and then attended most sittings of the court. He was
present when" sentence was pronounced against the king, and
signed the death-warrant. He then served on committees to set up
a republican government and abolish kingship and the House of Lords.
He continued to serve on increasing numbers of parliamentary committees
until his death 26 March 1652.
The following
is submitted by Abba Seraphim Metropolitan of Glastonbury
within the British Orthodox Church, part of the Coptic Orthodox
Patriarchate of Alexandria.
Chapter
7
POOR SCOUNDREL REGICIDE
Gregory
Norton was the second and only surviving son of Henry Norton1
of the cadet line of Wyarton in the Parish of Boughton Monchelsea.
His mother was Elizabeth, fourth daughter of William Nelson2,
gentleman, of Chaddleworth, Berkshire, Chief Protonotary of
the County Palatine of Lancashire. Henry Norton and Elizabeth
married at Merton, Surrey on 6 February 1590, where their
sons, Horden3 and Gregory were baptised on 23 April 1593 and
15 December 1594 respectively. Henry Norton is subsequently
described as of Wantage, Berks, Chaddleworth being
a parish situated about six miles south of Wantage on the
road to Hungerford. When the heralds, Chitting and Philipott,
conducted their Visitation of Berkshire in 1623 Gregory Norton,
described as of Charlton in Wantage, duly registered
his arms.
By that date Gregory Norton was married to Martha4, widow
of John Gunter5 and daughter of Bradshaw Drew, gentleman,
of Densworth in East Ashling, a tithing in the parish of Funtington,
Sussex,6 and they had five children, Gregory, who was baptised
at Wantage on 14 February 1622; Elizabeth (whose age is given
as 2 in the 1623 Berkshire Visitation); Henry, who was baptized
at Saint Martin-in-the-Fields on 4 May 1629; a second Henry
(the first presumably having died in infancy) whose baptism
of 2 January 1632 was recorded at Saint Andrew, Holborn on
8 January as out of Edward Parrys house near George
Yard and Grisell Valentia7, who was baptized at Funtington
on 26 May 1637 and buried there on 15 June 1637.
Through his uncle, Sir Dudley Norton, Gregory Norton had connections
which offered him some hope of preferment. In 1611 King James
I had instituted the new hereditary rank of baronet with the
sole objective of raising money to support troops in Ulster.
The honour cost the first recipients £1,095
and entitled them to the prefix Sir with precedence above
knights.8 Finding this a lucrative source of income, King
James created a baronetage of Ireland on 30 September 1619.
Gregory Norton was created an Irish baronet by patent
dated 27 April 1624, at Dublin, the Privy Seal being 20 February
1623/4 at Westminster.
Admitted to Gray's Inn on 3 August 1629 he was a contemporary
there of John Bradshaw (1602-1659), John Cook (died 1660)
and John Allured (1607-1651), all of who was to become prominent
parliamentarians. In 1639 the Council of State tried to obtain
financial support from Sir Gregory to assist in the suppression
of the Scottish rebels,
The King has gone in person to resist the dangerous
rebellion in Scotland which threatens the peace & safety
of this kingdom. All the nobility and many other persons of
quality do readily assist him, some in their persons others
with considerable sums of money, whereof we do hereby give
you notice, that you may also lay hold on this occasion to
express yr. Fidelity & good affection, and you will do
very well to signify forthwith your resolution to this board,
from whence his Majesty will understand the same.9
At this period he resided at Hampden's Manor, Penn, Buckinghamshire
but in 1640 he obtained the Manor of Aglands, West Thorney,
near Chichester, Sussex, when he also became a Justice of
the Peace for West Sussex and in 1642 Receiver for Midhurst
and Chichester. On 19 October 1643 he was given a commission
to raise a hundred men in Sussex for the defence of the Isle
of Wight and in 1644 both Gregory and Martha were on the island,
where they had property. On 20 June 1644 he was one of several
parliamentary supporters added to the Committee for the Isle
of Wight. It is recorded that the Rev. Aaron Crosfield was
brought before this committee for saying that he that
would not join with Prince Rupert against Parliament was a
traitor and a rebel. The parson was shut out of his
church by some of his parishioners who desired to hear
an honest and godly man sent to them by Parliament.
Crosfield sent for his surplice and preached to a small congregation,
while the honest godly man addressed a large audience
in the school-house. For the benefit of Lady Martha these
sermons were privately repeated in her home, enraging Crosfields
supporters, who threatened to demolish her mansion.10 In 1645
he entered parliament in a by-election and served in the Long
Parliament as one of the two members for Midhurst in Sussex.
Robert Temple11 observes that although Sir Gregory Norton
was not a commanding presence in the House, he
was a devoted committee man. He served on the
committee concerning accounts within weeks of his election
and later joined the committees for martial law and Irish
affairs, which he attended assiduously, becoming a major figure.
Following Pride's Purge, his importance in the Commons increased
dramatically and he was immediately co-opted to the committees
concerning Accounts, Irish Affairs and for Martial Law. After
Prides Purge of 1648 (when some 140 M.Ps were
excluded) he remained with the Rump and joined the committees
for Revenue and Compounding.
His political connections, made it inevitable that on 23 December
1648 he would be drawn onto the committee for proceedings
against the king, the first of the Commons committees which
laid the groundwork for the king's trial and execution. John
Bradshaw (1602-1659), who presided at the trial; John Cook
(died 1660), chief prosecutor and John Alured (1607-1651),
the regicide, were all contemporaries from his days at Gray's
Inn. Among the other regicides, Humphrey Edwards (died 1658)
was a close personal friend and William Cawley (1602-1666?)
was his fellow M.P. for Midhurst. On 6 January he attended
the first of the sessions of the high court of justice preparatory
to the trial and then attended all but two days of the trial.
He was present when sentence was pronounced against the king
and signed the death warrant12 which also sealed the ruination
of his line and ensured his place among the infamous in history.
William Winstanley referred to him as
"One
whose means was not answerable to his Title, being one of
the Pensioners to the King, who ungratefully for the lucre
of money joyned also in the King's murther, and had by his
fellow Regicides for his service, as good as given Richmond
Manner and House."
Another,
anonymous writer, also attributes dishonourable motives to
his actions,
"This
beggerly Knight had been one of the Pensioners to the King,
and in return for the Bread he had eaten and being kept
from Starving, became one of his Murders, sitting in the
Court to try him, and signing the Warrant for Execution.
For this
diabolical Action, he was rewarded with Richmond House and
Mannor. He escap'd the more proper Reward for his Villainy,
an Halter, by dying before the Restoration." 13
John Evelyn, the diarist, has an entry under 28 October 1653
which refers to that cursed woman cald the Lady Norton,
of whom it was reported, that she spit in our Kings
face, as he went to the Scaffold, indeede her talke &
discourse was like an impudent woman. However, the attribution
of this act to Lady Martha is questioned by the diarys
editor.14
His service to the Commonwealth did not end here and he served
on committees to set up a republican form of government and
to abolish both the House of Lords and the monarchy.15 For
these services, on 10 September 1645, he was awarded a thousand
pounds out of such papists and delinquents
estates, not yet discovered, as he shall discover and
that he should hold and enjoy Sir Roger Palmers sequestered
house at Charing Cross for which the Committee of Sequestrations
should pay to the landlord the yearly rent of twenty-five
pounds. The money was not immediately forthcoming but he was
eventually paid from a confiscation made after he reported
a concealment in compounding by Sir Henry Hastings, a Royalist.
His avaricious spirit can be gauged by the fact that he took
too much and, after his death, Lady Martha was required to
repay some £516. He also acquired the tenancy of Manor
of Oatlands Park near Weybridge16 and after the kings
execution he obtained Richmond Palace at Sheen, Surrey and
much of its furnishings. This was first sold on 12 April 1650
by the Commissioners of the House of Commons for £13,562
0s.6d. to a three-man consortium comprising Thomas Rokeby,
William Goodrick and Adam Baynes on behalf of themselves and
other creditors and then purchased by Sir Gregory Norton,
the materials being valued at £10,782.19s.2d.17 Mark
Noble expressed the widely accepted view of these transactions,
"As
a reward for this nefarious butchery, he was gratified with
Richmond Palace, and much of his Majesty's furniture, at
a very inconsiderable price
He appears to have had
his slender fidelity overcome with the prospect of dividing
the royal plunder, which the king's enemies shared with
great rapacity amongst them". 18
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Palace had been rebuilt magnificently by Henry VII following
a fire which had destroyed the more modest royal manor. Although
situated at Sheen, Henry VII had named it after his former
earldom and pictures show it as comprising three floors, with
numerous bays and turrets and crowned with fourteen bulbous
cupolas. The Spanish ambassador marvelled because it contained
more rooms and better than the Alcazar of Madrid
the crowds in them are so great as to be hardly contained
as well as eighteen kitchens. Its central features were a
hall and a chapel, each a hundred feet long and all richly
carved and ornamented.19 Sir Gregory and Lady Norton must
have found its empty vastness strange and unsettling.
However, recent research suggests it is likely that Sir Gregory
did not use the palace as a splendid residence but instead,
turned it into a stone quarry. John Cloake20 thinks it probable
that Sir Gregory bought only the lordship of the manor of
Richmond and part of the brick buildings facing Richmond Green
and the outer court. A near contemporary observer asserts
that Henry Carter of Richmond was the first puller-down
of the Kings house there and sold the stone and material
of the house to the value of £2000 and upwards.
It seems that Carter acquired title to the stone buildings,
which comprised among other things, the Privy Lodgings, the
Chapel and the Hall. Cloake has traced through the Manor Court
rolls and books for this period evidence that demolition was
in progress by October 1651 and disputes over the rights of
the inhabitants were numerous.
Richmond
Palace
If he
was well rewarded for his services to the new order, in his
family life he was sorely tried. His eldest son and heir,
Gregory Norton, had shown promise. He was admitted as a Fellow
Commoner at Jesus College, Cambridge, on 1 March 1637/8 and
matriculated but he had died in 1652. His younger brother,
Henry, now became the heir. Although he was to follow closely
his father in his career, being admitted to Gray's Inn on
10 March 1657/8 and elected as Member of Parliament for Petersfield
in 1659 21, he did not share his fathers political sympathies.
In his will, Sir Gregory refers to my unnaturall &
disobedient sonn Henrie Norton whose only share in the
inheritance is the redemption of heavily mortgaged land in
Penn to the end that he payinge the money due upon the
said mortgage may enjoy the said land unto him and his heires.
By contrast the residue of his lands was settled upon his
executor, the regicide Humphrey Edwards, who is described
as my most lovinge and deare friend. His will,
which was dated 12 March 1652, was obviously made in preparation
for his death as he was buried in Richmond Church on 26 March
1652, although Lady Martha was in France, at Poitiers, when
he died.22 Probate of the will was granted to Lady Martha
Norton on 24 September 1652.
According to Robert Temple, Lady Martha was hounded under
the Protectorate by the commissioners for compounding, who
persecuted many republican MPs. On 20 October 1655 at St.
Pauls Church, Covent Garden, she married Robert Gordon,
4th Viscount Kenmure (1622-1663). Kenmure was an active Royalist
and in 1649 the Commission of Assembly ordered that he satisfie
in the Kirk of Leith for his fornication committed there,
at least on[e] day. In 1650 he had held Kenmure Castle
for some time against the Parliamentary forces and was taken
a prisoner at Worcester in September 1651. In July 1653 he
joined Glencairn's rising on behalf of the Prince of Wales
and a price of £200 was set on his head. However, he
received good terms from General Monck in 1654 and was able
to return to London and marry. He suffered much on account
of his loyalty to the king and was excepted from Cromwells
Act of Grace, 1654. Shortly after marrying Lady Martha she
conveyed to him the manors and advowsons of Stokenham Rectory
in South Devon, Clymsland Prior and Landulph in Cornwall which
had been settled on her by Sir Gregory Norton, so that in
1656 Sir Henry Norton was obliged to sue his mother and Viscount
Kenmure for their return. During this Chancery suit she was
referred to as very selfish. The court ordered
that the money raised by the sale of her lands, which had
been used by Sir Gregory to buy Richmond Palace, should be
repaid to Lord Kenmure. Here he also vandalized the property
by taking away the waincote, bords, locks, & windowes.
He and Martha appeared to have separated and he retired to
Greenlaw in Berwick and died in 1663 without issue.
At the death of Sir Gregory Norton in 1652 the baronetcy passed
to his only surviving son. On 14 October 1656 at St. Margarets,
Westminster, Sir Henry Norton married Mabella, daughter of
Sir Richard Norton, 1st baronet of Rotherfield, in the Parish
of East Tisted, Hampshire. Although sharing a surname and
a baronetcy dating from 1622, the two families were previously
unconnected.23 Lady Mabellas father, Sir Richard Norton
(1582-1645), was a former Sheriff of Hampshire (1613-14) and
M.P. for Petersfield (1621-22) who was created a baronet in
1622. He was a sufferer in the royal cause and was imprisoned
in July 1644 as well as fined £1,000, although this
was later reduced to £500. The family were staunch royalists,
his eldest son, Sir Richard Norton (1619-1652), the 2nd baronet,
was compounded for his delinquency by a fine of £100
in 1645, and his second son, Sir John Norton (1620-1687),
the 3rd baronet, had also suffered in the Royal cause.
Sir Gregory Norton was fortunate not to have survived until
the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 as the few regicides
still living were executed and Parliament directed that the
leading figures (Bradshaw, Cromwell and Ireton), though dead,
should be exhumed from Westminster and hanged in their
coffins at Tyburn before having their heads exposed
in Westminster Hall and their corpses reburied beneath the
scaffold.24 Although his corpse was left in peace, Sir Gregorys
name was inserted in the bill of indemnity, by which all misappropriated
property was restored to the crown.
It appears that the lordship of the Manor of Richmond, which
Sir Gregory Norton bequeathed to Humphrey Edwards in 1652,
subsequently passed to Dame Martha Norton in 1655, possibly
paid for by Viscount Kenmure, who is listed jointly as lord
of the manor in 1656. By 1657, however, Sir Henry Norton was
lord of the manor and was living in part of the palace comprising
three distinct buildings: one next to the gate; another in
the Wine Cellar Court built at right angles to the line of
the wall and projecting well forward of the Gate House and
the third comprising a long range, almost level in front with
the end of the second, which contained what were still in
1660 called the Princes Chambers and which stood on
the site of what is now Maids of Honour Row. These buildings
were decayed and around 1658 Sir Henry let them at an annual
rent of £20 to Mr. Walter Long who, having some
of his children sick in London was advised by his physicians
to go to Richmond to take benefit of that Aire for their recovery.
At the Restoration the manor reverted to the crown and was
formally restored to Queen Henrietta Maria to whom
it had been granted originally in 1627 - by a resolution of
Parliament on 23 June 1660. In July 1660 King Charles II issued
a life grant to Edward Villiers of the offices of Keeper
of West Sheen House als Richmond, with the wardrobe, gardens
and green thereto belonging, Keeper of the Park, lodges and
game, also Steward of the Court Leet there, Keeper of the
late Monastery of Sheen, Steward of the said Manor and Keeper
of the Court Baron there. Mr. Long submitted a petition
explaining that he had already laid out about £400 in
repairs on the property leased from Sir Henry, although he
had not yet moved in. He was unsuccessful in obtaining a crown
lease and it is not known whether he received any compensation
for the work he had undertaken.25
After the Restoration both Viscountess Kenmure and Sir Henry
Norton set about trying to salvage something of the estates
held by Sir Gregory Norton, which were now confiscated by
the crown. Throughout 1660-1662 they petitioned repeatedly
but without success. In September 1660 Lady Mabella petitioned
for the restoration of £300, recovered by Sir Henry
at the expense of her portion of £2,000
out of Sir Gregorys estate. She recited her own royalist
connections and referred to her father-in-law who had
his hands dyed in the blood of the late King and disinherited
her husband because he abhored such deeds.
In October 1660 Viscount Kenmure, who the previous year had
been imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle but escaped, petitioned
the crown for the restoration of the Devon and Cornwall estates.
However, whilst this was under consideration Nicholas Delves,
a citizen of London and a Merchant Taylor, made a counter
petition. He explained that he had lent £350 to Sir
Henry Norton on a bond of £700 because he had often
heard that his father had disinherited his for affection
to His Majesty. The Manor and Rectory of Stokenham had
been offered as security but not only had it been forfeited
by the treason of Sir Henrys father but he had
now learned that it is regranted to Sir Henry, who has
taken it in another name, which will endanger his money.
Delves asked that Sir Henry should either pay the debt or
that the lands should be granted to him. In December 1661
it was ordered that either no grant of the Manor and Rectory
of Stokenham should be made until Sir Henry Norton secured
or paid Delves the outstanding debt, or that the grant to
Sir Henry should be made in his own name so that the land
might be liable for the debt. In March 1662 there is recorded
a grant to Sir John Norton and two others of the Rectory of
Stokenham with all lands etc. belonging thereto except
the advowson of the church, now in the king's hands, by forfeiture
of Sir Gregory Norton, deceased. 26 Presumably this
marked the successful outcome of their endeavours as Lysons,
Magna Brittanica records,
"The
Manor of Stokenham Priory belonged to Sir Gregory Norton,
Bart., one of the Regicides. In 1685 Sir Henry Norton, of
Stokenham, brother of Sir John Norton, Bart., of Rotherfield,
in Hampshire, bequeathed this estate to his nephew, Henry
Nelson, Esq., son of William Nelson, Esq., of Chaddleworth,
Berks. It was purchased of Norton Nelson, Esq., by the Holdsworth
family, and is now the property of A.H. Holdsworth Esq."
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In her
will dated 1670-71, Martha Gordon, Dowager Viscountess Kenmure,
left her lands in Chichester and her barn with sixteen acres
called Dremeo in Bridham (Deanes in Birdham) to
her kinsman William Nelson of Chaddleworth and
the remainder of her land to her son, Sir Henry Norton of
Stockenham, Devon, who was named as executor and was therefore
reconciled to his mother.
Peter Ellacotts excellent study of Martha Drew and the
families with which she was connected raises the question
of whether any descendants of Sir Henry Norton survived. His
own wife is a descendant of the Victorian architect, John
Norton, and preserved a family tradition that
Sir Gregory and Lady Martha are numbered among their
ancestors. Although Sir Henry Norton vanishes from the
historical records, apparently without trace, there is no
reference to his having any children. Furthermore, it seems
highly improbable that he would have bequeathed his lands
at Stockenham to his Nelson cousins if he had left any descendants
himself. The Complete Baronetage merely records that Sir Henry
Norton was living 31 December 1661 but then states that nothing
further is known of him; but at his death, say about 1690,
the Baronetcy is presumed to have become extinct.
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Hants
vert a lion ramp or
Crest,
a Moor's head, couped at the shoulders, ppr.
Norton, [Portsmouth]
vert, a lion ramp. or.
Crest, a Moor's head, side-faced, ppr. bound about the forehead
with a fillet, wreathed and tied in a knot, ar. az. and gu.

Richard Norton
of Rotherfield Hants
quarterly first and fourth vert a lion
ramp or second az on a fesse gu betw six cross crosslets or three
escallops of the last, third az a fesse nebula betw three crescents
or
Crest
a Moor's head couped at the shoulders ppr
The quartering
of the Rotherfield Nortons has 1st and 4th positons Norton, 2nd
White and 3rd Rotherfield.

Rotherfield.
Azure a fesse wavy between three crescents or.
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de Norton, Sheriff of Norfolk 1269.
Just 203 years removed from the Battle of Hastings. They are also
found at Suffolk, Dorset, Hants, and Sussex.
Dorset Sheriff-
Edward IV - Tho Norton arms - V a lion rampant motto - O alibi Arg
The History of the Worthies of England By Thomas Fuller
Dorset Sheriff-
Henry VII - Sampson Norton arms - V a lion rampant motto - O alibi
Arg
The History of the Worthies of England By Thomas Fuller
They
are also found in Hants, quartered onSir
Richard Norton (heir
of Rotherfield) Sheriff
of Hampshire, 1st Baronet of Rotherfield 1622.
To the list
of Nobles &c in this County of the reign of Hen VII I shall
add a few accidentally omitted from other authorities and also such
of those who had their first rise and notice about the time of the
visitation taken in 1575 as are now or within memory have been remaining.
Norton of
Rotherfield. This was a very ancient family They seem to have
taken their rise from Norton Manor in the neighbouring parish
of Selborne.
Ralph
de Norton was Sheriff of the county( i Rich II Arms V a lion ramp
O) 1377
Richard
Norton 6 Hen VIII - 1516
Sir
John Norton 1553 (6 Edw VI) and again 3 and 4 Phil and Mary
Richard Norton 1564 (6 Eliz) and again 30 Eliz
Daniel Norton 1608 (5 Jam I )
Richard Norton Kt n 1503 (Jam I) and
Dan Norton i Char I
Sir Richard Norton of Rotberfield was created a Bart May 23 1622
Francis Powlett of Anne port Esq married Elizabeth filter and
heir of Sir John Norton of Rotherfield Bart and from him defcends
George Powletr Efq presumptive heir to the Marquisate of Winchester
the prescnt owner who bought it lately of Norton Powlett Esq illegitimate
on of his elder brother (source)
Rotherfield
Nortons
William Norton ??
WlLLlAM took up the cross in the last Crusade
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James Norton b.abt 1270 (heir) 1310
m.Elizabeth de Gurdon
m. Margaret
(Adam de Gurdon died seised of the manor of Tisted, leaving
a daughter and heir Joan, who in 1308 settled the whole on
herself for life with reversion to James de Norton and his
heirs. For licence to enter the manor James de Norton paid
a fine of 5 marks to the crown during the next year. (fn.
13) In March, 1316, the manor was in his hands, (fn. 14) and
in the May of that year he settled it upon himself and his
second wife Margaret and their heirs; failing such it was
to revert to Thomas the son of James by his first wife Elizabeth.
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Sir James
de Norton of Hants bore vert a lyon rapant or. - WlLLlAM took
up the cross in the last Crusade 1270 (Parlimentary Roll E.
ii) (source)
(The future Edward I of England undertook another Crusade
in 1271, after having accompanied Louis on the Eighth Crusade.
He accomplished very little in Syria and retired the following
year after a truce.)
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Thomas
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John
Norton (heir) 1361
d.1346
James and Margaret had a son
John who died before 1346, when the manor passed into the hands
of Edmund de Kendale, Margaret's second husband, in custody
for John's son John, a minor, who came of age in 1360.
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Norton (heir) b.1340 d.1370
m1.Felice Kendall (daughter of Sir Edward Kendall) (issue
Agnes, Catharine, Margaret, Mary)
m2.Alice
This John
only held the manor for ten years, dying abroad, probably on
active service in the French wars in 1370, and leaving a son
and heir John only three years old.
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Norton b.1367 (heir)
m.Joane Holle (daughter of Richard Holle
Before 1424 John Nortonr conveyed the manor to
trustees, who settled it in that year on his son John and Joan
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Peter
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Margaret
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Richard
Norton (heir) d.1503
m. Elizabeth Rotherfield 1495, (daughter of Sir William Rotherfield
alias Lyndhurst)
Richard Norton the son and heir of John and Joan
died seised of East Tisted in 1503, leaving a son and heir Richard,
who married Elizabeth Rotherfield in 1495.
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Edward
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Elizabeth Norton m. White of Southwick, co, Southton
Alice Norton
Henry Norton
Margaret Norton m. Oliver Vachell of Bereton, Southton
Richard Norton m. Emme dau. of Thomas Wells.
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Norton of Bensted m. Fitzwilliams
George Norton
Richard Norton
John Norton
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John
Norton of Rotherfield
m.Anne Puttenham (daughter of George Puttenham of Sherfield
Thus in 1564 Anne Norton pleaded that her husband
John Norton had left her the manor of Rotherfield as part of
her dower. Within the manor was 'a great wood (fn. 60) adjoining
the park pale of Rotherfield on the west side of the park containing
threescore and seven acres or thereabouts . . . which hath been
used time out of mind of man at the age of sixteen years growth
to be lopped and sold.' Anne had therefore sent workmen to lop
the trees, but her son Richard had hindered them and brought
them before the King's Bench.'
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Edmund
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Richard
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Symon
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Richard Norton
Thomas Norton
Sara Norton |
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Sir
Richard Norton of Rotherfield
(heir
of Rotherfield) d.1536
m.Rose Whyte (White) (Daughter of William Whyte of Wymering)
(source))
m.Anne (sister and heir of Edward Montpeeson of Battington,
Wilshire)
m. Catherine Kingsmill dau. of John Kingsmill source:
Visitatons of Hampshire
Richard died in 1536, leaving a son and heir John who died before
1564, in which year Anne his widow sought dower in East Tisted
against her son Richard. She stated that she had been dispossessed
by subtle practice between this her son and his uncle, who 'when
the said orator was in great heaviness and sorrow for the death
of her late husband came to her and brought a deed of release
by which she should release unto the said Richard all right
of dower in the said lands . . . while they swore to her that
there was nothing in it but a note or remembrancer of such lands
as her late husband held and nothing that would do her harm.'
Trusting to them she signed the deed and her son seized the
lands.
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other
issue of Sir Richard and Catherine Kingmill:
William Norton
Charles Norton
Constance Norton m. Sir Henry Whitehead |
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Mary
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m.Sir Henry Vuedall |
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John
Norton of Enasyott or Ernshott (heir
of Rotherfield) d.1564
m.Joane Cole |
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Sir
Richard Norton of Rotherfield
d.1612 (heir
of Rotherfield)
m.Mabell Beecher (daughter of Henry Beecher, alsderman of London)
Their son Richard, who was knighted in 1610,
(fn. 26) succeeded to the manor on the death of his mother before
that date, and held it until his death in 1612.
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Sir
Richard Norton (heir
of Rotherfield)
Sheriff of Hampshire, 1st Baronet of Rotherfield 1622 b.1582
d.July 1645
m.Amy Bilson (died before 1655 daughter of Thomas Bilson.
Bishop of Winchester.)
The manor then passed to his son Richard, who
was several times sheriff of Hampshire, and who was created
baronet in 1622. The Norton family were staunch royalists
and suffered heavily for their adherence to Charles. In July,
1644, Sir Richard was committed 'for maintaining the proceedings
against the Parliament and for doing many disservices.' He
was imprisoned in Lord Petre's house, but was by order of
the Committee for Prisoners discharged in August, 1644, on
giving sufficient security. His estates were valued at £15,000
a year, and on admission to compound he was fined at £1,000.
This was reduced to £500 in March, 1645. He paid the
fine, but died before August of that year, leaving his estate
heavily charged, as his sons complained when they compounded
for their own and their father's delinquency on his death.
They stated that they had been in the king's army in Winchester
garrison, and five days after its surrender had taken an oath
administered by the county committee. They were now heavily
burdened with their father's debts and the necessity of paying
their mother's jointure, while Sir Richard the elder son had
no other estate, and John the younger only a lease of £15
a year, now sequestered. In April, 1647, all proceedings against
them were stayed, since they had paid £100, the sum
to which their fine had been reduced in consideration of their
poverty and their father's fine.
(source)
Sir Richard
Norton (1582-1645), was a former Sheriff of Hampshire (1613-14)
and M.P. for Petersfield (1621-22) who was created a baronet
in 1622. He was a sufferer in the royal cause and was imprisoned
in July 1644 as well as fined £1,000, although this
was later reduced to £500. The family were staunch royalists,
his eldest son, Sir Richard Norton (1619-1652), the 2nd baronet,
was compounded for his delinquency by a fine of £100
in 1645, and his second son, Sir John Norton (1620-1687),
the 3rd baronet, had also suffered in the Royal cause.
other
issue:
Thomas Norton > had son John Norton
Catherine Norton
Elizabeth Norton m. Thomas Antrobus
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Sir
Richard Norton (heir
of Rotherfield)
2nd Baronet of Rotherfield b.1619 d.1652
m. Elizabeth
The estate was not taken out until May, 1661,
when, since Sir Richard had died in 1652 without male issue,
it descended in tail male to his brother John as third baronet.
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John
Norton (heir
of Rotherfield) 3rd Baronet? b.1619 d.1686
The estate was not taken out until May, 1661,
when, since Sir Richard had died in 1652 without male issue,
it descended in tail male to his brother John as third baronet.
In 1666 Sir John Norton settled the manor of East Tisted on
himself and Dame Dorothy his wife and their heirs. Sir John
died in 1686 aged sixty-seven, and was buried in East Tisted
church under an elaborate monument erected 'by the piety of
his wife, Lady Dorothy.
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Elizabeth Norton (heir
of Rotherfield)
m. 20 May 1764 John Paulett
Elizabeth, the daughter of the late Sir Richard, as heiress
of her uncle. Elizabeth had married Francis Paulet
of Amport in August, 1674, (fn. 35) and on his death in 1695
or 1696 (fn. 36) their son Norton Paulet succeeded to the estate.
The will of the latter is dated 1729, and by it Norton Paulet,
his eldest son, was made sole heir and executor, and charged
to pay his father's debts of £13,000. (fn. 37) Thus in
1756 he mortgaged the manors of East Tisted and Rotherfield
to John Taylor, fellow of Winchester College, (fn. 38) but recovered
the same before his death in 1758. (fn. 39) By his will Thomas
Norton Paulet was made his sole heir after the death of his
wife, Mrs. Anne Paulet, and was to have an annuity of £200
during the life of Anne. (fn. 40) Anne died about 1765, but
before Thomas could enter into possession he had to prove his
title against William Paulet, his father's eldest surviving
brother,
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Mabella
Norton
m. 14 October 1656 Sir Henry Norton at St. Margarets,
Westminster, Sir Henry Norton in the Parish of East Tisted,
Hampshire.
Sir
Henry Norton is the son of Sir Gregory Norton regicide.
Although sharing a surname and a baronetcy dating from 1622,
the two families were previously unconnected.
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Southwick
Nortons
Sir Daniel Norton of Southwick (heir)
d.Apr 7,1636
m.Honora White (daughter of Sir John White of Southwick)
The
earliest mention of SOUTHWICK seems to be in the year 1133,
when Henry I founded a priory of Austin canons at Portchester,
assigning to them by the foundation charter the manor of Candover,
a hide of land in Applestead, and a hide of land in Southwick.
The priory was removed from Portchester to Southwick between
1145 and 1153, and this land with the addition of other lands
acquired by grant of Richard de Boarhunt and Gilbert de Boarhunt
during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries evidently became
the manor of Southwick, (fn. 8) which remained in the hands
of the prior and convent until the time of the Dissolution.
After
the Dissolution the site of the priory church of Southwick
was granted to John White, servant to Sir Thomas Wriothesley,
in 1538, and eight years later the manor and church of Southwick
were granted to Sir Thomas Wriothesley that he might alienate
them to John White. On the death of John White in 1567 the
manor passed to his son and heir Edward. In 1580 Edward died,
leaving a son and heir, John, who, in 1606, settled the manor
on his daughter and co-heir Honor on her marriage with Sir
Daniel Norton, and they came into possession of the manor
on the death of John White in the following year.
Sir Daniel
Norton died seised of the manor in 1636, leaving a son and
heir, Richard, who had married Anne daughter of Sir William
Earle. Richard died 10 December, 1732, and his daughter and
heir Sarah married Henry Whitehead ; they had two children
Richard and Mary. Richard died young, 25 December, 1733, leaving
all his estates to his nephew Francis Thistlethwayte, son
of his sister Mary, who had married Alexander Thistlethwayte
in 1717 and died before 1728. (fn. 19) Francis Thistlethwayte
of Southwick took the name of Whitehead, and died 30 March,
1751, leaving his estates to his elder brother with remainder
to his younger brother, Robert Thistlethwayte. From that time
the manor has remained in the hands of the Thistlethwayte
family ; Mr. Alexander Thistlethwayte of Southwick Park being
lord of the manor at the present day. (source)
other
issue of Daniel and Honora White
Edward Norton b.1618,
Thomas Norton
John Norton b.1624,
Frances Norton
Bridgit (dsp),
Catherine Norton
Honora Norton
m.John Elliott (son of Sir John of St.Germans)
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Richard Norton of Southwick d.10
December, 1732 (heir)
m.Anne Earle (daughter of Sir Walter Earle of Charborough)
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Norton d.1688 (heir)
m.Isabel lawson (daughter of Sir John Lawson)
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Norton of Wellow b.1684
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Norton als Nervile
Thomas Norton
of Sharpenhoe in Streatley
gules, a fret argent, a crescent for difference, over all
a bend vair or and gules
Crest
a griffin sejant ppr winged gu beak and tore legs or
Robert
Norton - Markyate-Cell
gules a fret ar over all a bend vair
Another vairé or and gu
also
Norton Buckinghamshire
"In
an ancient Mansion Hous in Fulham, in the Countie of Midd. ...,
the armes of Norton are in manie places remaining and the Bassingbourne's
Armes quarters with theirs. There are also impailed the armes
of Norland and Norton, quarteringe Bassingborn and Walker, impaed
with Norton: also the armes of Mr. Hill and Mr. Rice, impaled
with Norland."
Pr.
John Philepott, Somersett. 1632
Fulham
is a little hamlet
just west of central London, but was a center for important people
with business in London. The Bishop of London has had a palace
there since 742 AD. It is here that Sampson
Norton lived and signed his will in 1612. Sampson was from
the Yorkshire Nortons and his device is found at Fulham along
with the Sharpenhoe Norton Arms.
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Norton
In the "Visitation of London" of 1633
the Heralds respited the arms of Thomas Norton for want of proofs.
This means that there was not sufficient evidence to substantiat these
arms. But they were allowed in the next year to Robert Norton in Hertfordshire
and to Gravely Norton in Bedfordshire The Nortons of Sharpenhoe bore
Gules a fret Argent over all a bend Vaire Or and of field.
The Norton's
of Sharpenhoe asserted their pedigree to Sir de Nourvile who came
with William the Conqueror. It is not suprising that these Norton
arms share the the same devices and tinctures as the Norvyle
arms.

A
pedigree done in 1632 by John Philepott, Somerset herald,
sets out a linage starting with Sir Norvile who came with William
I to England.
"This
Genealogie of the Nortons of Sharpehow in Bedfordshire, beginninge
at Noruile that married into the howse Valois, and came into England
with Kinge William the Conqueror, and was his Constable; whose
posteritie, long time after, assumed the English name of Norton,
being the same in signification that Noruile is in French.
John
Philepott, Somerset herald 1632
By 1722 no
Nortons left in Bedford Pollbook
of Bedfordshire 1722
Sir
John Norton 1300-1365? (YES there is a gap in dates,
click
for more info).
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Norton b.abt 1457
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Thomas
Norton b.abt1502
m. Elizabeth Merry
Thomas Norton was a wealthy citizen and purchased
Sharpenhoe from the Crown. Thomas' second wife was brought up
in the house of Thomas More and is said to have practised necromancy,
but became insane and drowned herself in 1582. The third wife,
Elizabeth Marshall, who has been mistakenly listed as the wife
of Thomas (1532-1584), was the widow of Ralph Ratcliffe of Hitchen
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Thomas
Norton Esq. 1532-1584 Councellor at Law
m. Margery, third daughter of Thomas Cranmer
m. 2nd Alice Cranmer
Visitation of Bedfordshire, 1634 (Harleian
19:128-129)*
(the crescent for difference suggests Thomas was the 2nd son)
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Henry
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Walter Norton's eldest brother was Henry Norton, whose son
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Henry
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Henry came to New England in 1634 source
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Capt.
Walter Norton,
b.abt1580
m.abt 1605 Jane (Reeve) Reynolds; d. before about 1618
d.1633 Murdered by Pequots at mouth of Connecticut River in
the summer of 1633
Soldier. In a petition of 26 February 1628/9 to the Council
of War, Lieutenant Colonel Walter Norton outlined his service
in the Low Countries from 1625 to 1627 under the commission
of the Duke of Buckingham, and asked for back pay for himself
and his officers; he related that he was "taken prisoner
in the Isle of Rees [Rhe] on the day of the retreat with 63
pieces about him, and having then also his only son being his
ensign, together with his lieutenant slain in that service"
MIGRATION to New England: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Charlestown, MA
REMOVES: York, Maine 1632
RETURN TRIPS: In England 1631, returned to New England 1632
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Robert
Norton - b.1575 Markyate-Cell, near Dunstable probably
in London about 1575, received settlement of the manor of Sharpenhoe
from his brother Henry.
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Luke
Norton Esq. Councellor at Law in the inner Temple. One of
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Benjamin
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Thomas
Norton of London - Silkman of Lombard Street |
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Anne
Norton
m. Eustace Nedham |
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Richard
Norton b.abt1517
m. Mary Wingar |
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William
Norton b.1558 Sharpenhoe, Bedford, England
m.Margerie Hawes
m. Denise Chomley |
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Thomas
Norton of Guilford, CT (1608-1648)
Surry, England d.Guilford, CT
m. Grace Wells
Thomas Norton brought with him a pedigree
done by John Philepott, Sommerset Herald in 1632. Thomas
Norton of Sharpenhoe "the puritan" and ancestor of
Rev. John and Rev. Wm. who went to Boston. (Dictionary of National
Biog of Britain) |
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Margerie
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William
Norton
m. Alice Browst |
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John
Norton (Rev)
b.May 9, 1606 Boston, MA
m. Mary |
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William
Norton
Boston, MA
m. Lucy Downing |
1540
Sharpenhoe - Thomas Norton,
born about 1500, died 10 March 1584; Thomas Norton was a wealthy
citizen and purchased Sharpenhoe from the Crown. He married Elizabeth
Merry, daughter of Robert Merry of Northall, member of the Inner
Temple. Thomas' second wife was brought up in the house of Thomas
More and is said to have practised necromancy, but became insane
and drowned herself in 1582. The third wife, Elizabeth Marshall,
who has been mistakenly listed as the wife of Thomas (1532-1584),
was the widow of Ralph Ratcliffe of Hitchen Hertfordshire.
In
his work, England Under the Tudors, G. R. Elton has the following
to say about Thomas Norton, in a section dealing with pressure put
on Queen Elizabeth over the isue of succession to the throne:
In the Commons
there was a body of some 40 or 50 very active members, mostly
with puritan sympathies, who dominated the less independent men
and were not afraid of taking issue with the privy councillors
who represented the queen and government. The unofficial leader
of the first of this 'choir' , as a contemporary called them,
was Thomas Norton, the first of the great puritan parliament men
and the hero of the two sessions of this parliament....
(1532-1584)
The Norton family was closely connected with the Grocers' Company
in London, to which the son Thomas was in due course admitted
; but, although it is probable that he went to Cambridge at the
company's expense, nothing is known of his academic career. He
is not identical with the Thomas Norton who graduated B.A. from
Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1569 (cf. Archologia, xxxvi.
105 sq.) He was, however, created M. A. by the university of Cambridge
on 10 June 1570 as a twelve-year student, and on 4 July 1576 he
applied to the university of Oxford for incorporation, but there
is no record of his admission. A brother Lucas is said to have
been admitted to the Inner Temple in 1583. While a boy Thomas
entered the service of Protector Somerset as amanuensis, and quickly
proved himself a ripe scholar. He eagerly adopted the views of
the religious reformers, and was only eighteen when he published
a translation of a Latin ' Letter which Peter Martyr wrote to
the Duke of Somerset' on his release from the Tower in 1550. The
interest of the volume is increased by the fact that Martyr's
original letter is not extant [see VERMIGLI]. In 1555 Norton was
admitted a student at the Inner Temple, and soon afterwards he
married Margery, the third daughter of Archbishop Cranmer. He
worked seriously at his profession, and subsequently achieved
success in it ; but, while keeping his terms, he devoted much
time to literature.
Some verses which he wrote in early life attracted public notice.
A sonnet by him appears in Dr. Turner's ' Preservative or Triade
against the Poyson of elagius,' 1551. His poetic ' Epitaph of
Maister Henrie Williams' was published in' Songes and Sonettes
'of Surrey and others, published by Tottel in 1567. This, like
another poem which was first printed in Ellis's ' Specimens,'
1805, ii. 136, is preserved among the Cottonian MSS., Titus A.
xxiv. Latin verses by Norton are appended to Humphrey's ' Vita
juelli ' (1573). Jasper Heywood, in verses prefixed to his translation
of ' Thyestes,' 1560, commended ' Norton's Ditties,' and described
them as worthy rivals of sonnets by Sir Thomas Sackville and Christopher
Yelverton. Norton spoke frequently during the session, and proved
himself, according to D'Ewes, ' wise, bold, and eloquent.' He
made an enlightened appeal to the house to pass the hill which
proposed to relieve members of parliament of the obligation of
residence in their constituencies (IlALLAM, Hut, i. 266). He warmly
supported, too, if he did not originate, the abortive demand of
the puritans that Cranmer's Calvinistic project of ecclesiastical
reform should receive the sanction of parliament. Norton was the
owner of the original manuscript of Cranmer's code of ecclesiastical
laws, with Cranmer's corrections in his own hand. It had doubtless
reached him through his first wife, the archbishop's daughter,
and was the only remnant of the archbishop's library which remained
in the possession of his family. While the proposal affecting
its contents was before parliament, Norton gave the manuscript
to his friend John Foxe, the martyrologist, who at once printed
it, with the approval of Archbishop Parker, under the title '
Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum (1571);' the docu- His wife's
stepfather was Edward Whit- church [q. T.], the Calvinistic printer,
and Norton lived for a time under his roof. In November 1552 he
sent to Calvin from London an account of the Protector Somerset
(Letters relating to the Reformation, Parker Soc. p. 339). In
1559 the Swiss reformer published at Geneva the last corrected
edition of his ' Institutions of the Christian Religion,' and
this work Norton immediately translated into English at Whitchurch's
request ' for the commodity of the church of Christ,'that ' so
great a jewel might be made most beneficial, that is to say, applied
to most common use.' The translation was published in 1561, and
passed through numerous editions (1562, 1574, 1587, 1599). But
Norton had not wholly abandoned lighter studies, and in the same
yenr (1561) he completed, with his friend Sackville, the ' Tragedie
of Qorboduc,' which was his most ambitious excursion into secular
literature Meanwhile he was called to the bar, and his practice
grew rapidly. On Lady day 1562 he became standing counsel to the
Stationers' Company, and on 18 June 1581 solicitor to the Merchant
Taylors' Company. On 6 Feb. 1570-1 he was appointed to the newly
established office of remembrancer of the city of London, his
functions being to keep the lord mayor informed of his public
engagements, and to report to him the daily proceedings of parliament
while in session. As remembrancer he was elected one of the members
for the city of London, and took his seat in the third parliament
of Elizabeth, which met 2 April 1571.
Thomas
Norton, a.k.a. "Rackmaster-General of England"...died
(1584) after nearly 25 years in the commons. A ready debater,
skilful tactician, and strongly principled puritan, he more than
anyone had nursed and shaped the parliamentary opposition of the
reign. His reward was a general fame as 'Master Norton the Parliament-man',
though it is only recently, after being for long overshadowed
by the more assertive and dramatic Wentworth that he has come
into his own again. [Note at bottom of the page: Norton is the
real hero of professor Neale's Elizabeth I and her Parliaments
1559-81].
Thomas Norton,
a.k.a. "Rackmaster-General of England" for his tortuous
inquisitions of Catholics; married first Margaret Cranmer, daughter
of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, with whom he had
no children; married second Alice Cranmer, daughter of Thomas'
brother Edmund Cranmer, Archdeacon of Canterbury, and Alice Sands.
Thomas was a famed Elizabethan-era poet and lawyer. He debated
anti-Roman Catholic measures in the English Parliament and examined
Roman Catholics under torture. He translated John Calvin's Institutes
of the Christian Religion (1561), among other important works.
He is most famous for his co-authorship with Thomas Sackville
(cousin to Queen Elizabeth) of Gorboduc, the first English-language
drama to be composed entirely in blank verse.
Thomas got his M.A. at Cambridge on 10 June 1570. It was said
that he had a brother Lucas who was admitted to the Inner Temple
in 1583. As a boy Thomas entered the service of the Protector
Somerset and eagerly adopted his amanuensis' views on religious
reform. He entered the Inner Temple in 1555 and soon after married
Margery, third daughter of Thomas Cranmer. His wife's stepfather
was Edward Whitchurch, the Calvinistic printer and Thomas lived
under his roof for a time. He was called to the bar and his practice
grew rapidly. On Lady Day 1562, he became standing counsel to
the Stationers Company, and on 18 June 1581 Solicitor to the Merchant
Taylors Company.
Norton's activity and legal ability soon recommended him to the
Queen's ministers. In January 1581 Thomas became official censor
of the Queen's Catholic subjects. He complained to Walsingham
on 27 March 1582 about being known as the "Rackmaster General".
Amongst those Thomas tortured were Alexander Briant, Thomas Myagh
(an Irishman who had already been "loosened up" by Skevington),
Edmund Campion, and Francis Throgmorton.
But Thomas concern over the church's lack of zeal lead to
him being imprisoned in the Tower where he continued to press
Walsingham to be harsher with the Catholics. Although freed, his
health had suffered and he died at his house at Sharpenhoe on
10 March 1584. He was buried at Streatley Church and the will
he had written on his death bed was proved 15 April 1584. His
executor was Thomas Cranmer, his wife's brother.
Thomas Norton's second wife, Alice Cranmer, was always a bigoted
Protestant and fell victim to religious mania. By 1582 she was
hopelessly insane. At the time of her husband's death she was
living at Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, under the care of her eldest
daughter Ann, the wife of Sir George Coppin. She never recovered
her reason and was still at Cheshunt early in 1602. She was afterwards
removed to Bethlehem Hospital.
1575
Robert Norton, born 1575, died 1634; married Anne Hare
(Heare), daughter of Robert Hare. In his pedigree entered in the
1634 visitation of Hertfordshire, Robert listed himself as son
of Thomas first wife, Margaret, but according to Mr. Waters (Chesters
of Chichley) she died without issue in 1568.
Robert
studied engineering and gunnery under John Reinolds, Master Gunner
of England, and through his influence was made a master gunner in
the royal service.
On 11 March 1624, he received the grant of a gunner's room in the
Tower of London, and on 26 September 1627 he was sent to Plymouth
in the capacity of engineer to await the arrival of the Earl of
Holland and to accompany him to the Isle of Rhé. In that
same year he was granted the post of Engineer of the Tower of London,
for life.
In 1628 he authored The Gunner, which included discussions of artillery
theories, as well as of developments in hardware, such as corned
gunpowder. On the title page he describes himself as "one of
his Maiesties Gunners and Enginiers" , and says by way of preface:
"lead on by Experience the Mistris of all Arts, Action being
the best Tutor...I...haue endeuoured herein more to respect a few
experimented truthes, then many Rhethoricall imbellishments of words."
Gunnery, he said, was a profound study, "euen able to spose
the knowne parts of Naturall Philosophy, Arithmetick, Geometry,
and Perspectiue, each of which her handmayd is." His work was
later borrowed from by John Bate in his Book of Fireworks (1635),
containing information derived from "the noted Professors,
as Mr. Malthus, Mr. Norton, and the French Author, Des Recreations
Mathematiques."
Robert's later work, The Gunner's Dialogue, published in 1643, described
the type of pieces used in the artillery at the start of the Civil
War in England. Among questions posed in the dialogue were: "If
you were to make a shot in the night, at a mark showed you in the
day, how would you prepare for it?" and, "How would you
make a shot at an enemies light, in a dark night, not having any
candle, lanthorn, or other light by you?"
Robert died in 1635, his will was dated 28th January 1634/5 and
proved that February 19th.
THOMAS
NORTON of Guilford (1608-1648)
THOMAS NORTON came to Guilford with Rev. Mr. Whitfield in 1639,
was a signer of the Plantation Covenant, and served the town as
its miller until his death in 1648. He is stated to have been
a church warden of Mr. Whitfield's parish at Ockley in Surrey,
a few miles south of London, England, and has been thought to
have been connected with the NORTONs of Sharpenhow, Bedfordshire,
(New England Register, Vol. XIII., p., 225). His wife was named
GRACE and her maiden name is supposed to have been WELLS.
His
home lot in Guilford contained two acres and was on the west side
of Crooked Lane (now State Street.) This lot fell to his son, JOHN
NORTON, on THOMAS NORTON's death, and afterwards was occupied by
Lieut. WILLIAM SEWARD, his son-in-law. THOMAS NORTON also owned
seventeen and one-half of "upland in the plains" and a
parcel of one and one-half acres of marsh land by the sea-side.
Children:
ANNE NORTON, b. 1625, m. JOHN WARREN, 1649.
GRACE NORTON, b. May 29, 1627, m. WILLIAM SEWARD of New Haven
and Guilford, Apr. 2, 1651.
MARY NORTON, b. 1635, m. SAMUEL (2) (WILLIAM 1) ROCKWELL of Winsor,
Conn., Apr. 9, 1660
JOHN NORTON, b. 1638, m. (1st) ELIZABETH
HUBBARD, dau. of GEORGE HUBBARD 2nd wife; HANNAH STONE
ABIGAIL NORTON, b. 1642, m. ANANIAS TRYON of Killingsworth, Aug.
6, 1667
THOMAS NORTON, b. 1646, m. ELIZABETH MASON
(1)
JOHN NORTON (THOMAS) of Guilford,
b. 1638 at England, m. 1664, HANNAH STONE, b. 1644, dau. WILLIAM
STONE and HANNAH ?.
She died 1712, March 28. JOHN became miller of Guilford town mill
in 1649. His will dated 1700, Feb. 24, is at Guilford. He d. 1704,
March 5 at Guilford.
Children:
JOHN NORTON, b. 1666, Nov. 18. d. 1667, Jan. 10.
JOHN NORTON, b. May 29, 1668, d. 1712, March 15 m. HANNAH PECK
SAMUEL NORTON, b. 1672 Oct. 4. d. 1752, Apr. 2. (1st m) ABIGAIL
WARD (2ND m) SARAH WEST
JOSEPH NORTON, b. 1674, d. young
THOMAS NORTON, b. 1676, March 4. d. 1740, Sept. 21 m. RACHAEL
STARR
HANNAH NORTON, b. 1678 Feb. 24, d. 1723, March 5 m. EBENEZER
STONE
MARY NORTON, b. 1680; d. 1749 Oct. 8. m. JOHN SCRANTON
Thomas Norton
of Guilford Blaydes Genealógica Bedfordiensis 1890 shows
that Thomas Norton and Grace Wells were married in Shelton parish
May 5 1631 and Grace Norton daughter of Thomas was baptized
Jan 13 1632 in adjoining parish of Deane A son John was baptized
Feb 15 1634 and then this family seems to have removed as there
are no more entries in the registers.
1609
Thomas Norton, baptized 15 September 1609 at Sharpenhoe, Streatley,
Bedfordshire, England, died 16 May 1648, Guilford, New Haven Co.,
Connecticut; married 5 May 1631 in Shelton Parish, Bedfordshire,
England, Grace Wells, born about 1584 in Bedfordshire, England,
died August 1648 in Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
They emigrated with Rev. Mr. Whitfield in 1639 to Guilford, New
Haven Colony, Connecticut, where Thomas was a signer of the Plantation
Covenant, and one of the original proprietors. There he served as
town miller until his death nien years later.
His home lot in Guilford contained two acres and was on the west
side of Crooked Lane (now State Street); upon his death the lot
fell to his son, John, and was afterwards occupied by Thomas' son-in-law,
Lt. William Seward. Thomas also owned seventeen and one-half of
"upland in the plains" and a parcel of one and one-half
acres of marsh land by the seaside.
JOHN
NORTON
He was
descended from respectable ancestors and was born May 6th, 1606,
at Starford, in the county of Hertford. He early discovered uncommon
talents, and entered the University of Cambridge at fourteen.
Here he shone as a scholar, and took his first degree. A zealous
Catholic, who regarded him as a youth of much promise, endeavoured
to have him embrace the profession of Popery. The attempt was
vain. Mr. Nortons father having become embarrassed in his
pecuniary affairs, he left college and engaged as an Usher and
Curate in his native place.
At this time,
however, he felt not the power of religion. But he soon realized
the deep necessities of his soul and penitently fled to the Saviour
for help and eternal life. He rapidly gained the reputation of
an able minister of the New Testament. His uncle offered him a
considerable benefice; but he could not subscribe to the conditions,
with which it was clogged. For a similar reason he declined a
fellowship, as proffered him by Dr. Sibs, master of Catherine
Hall in Cambridge.
Still he was
not idle. He served as Chaplain to Sir Wm. Marsham, while waiting
to see if a more extensive sphere of usefulness would be opened
to him. Perceiving that his expectations in this respect were
crossed by the impositions of Church Conformity, he resolved to
visit the refuge of the Puritan Pilgrims. In one attempt to effect
this purpose, he came near being shipwrecked between Harwich and
Yarmouth. The vessel had to return, which disappointed him for
that season. The next year he was enabled to succeed. When he
departed from England, an aged clergyman said "he believed
that there was not more grace and holiness left in all Essex,
than what Mr. Norton had carried with him."
Previously
to his embarkation, he married a lady of considerable estate and
of estimable character, who accompanied him. Mr. Norton arrived
at Plymouth, Oct. 1635. Here he was invited to settle, as well
as at Ipswich. While considering which of these towns he ought
to choose, he resided in Boston. At this time his controversial
abilities were called into exercise by the arguments of a French
Friar. 1637. He was an influential member of the Synod,
which sat to compose the differences between the advocates and
opposers of Mrs. Hutchinson. He finally concluded to make Ipswich
the field of his labors. He assisted Mr. Ward, and was ordained
Teacher when Mr. Rogers was ordained Pastor. 5
As he was
looking for friends from England to join him here, he desired
farms to be laid out for them. This was granted. 1639,
Nov. 5th. The General Court vote him two hundred acres of land.
1645, Dec. 22d. He dates his Answer to Questions on Ecclesiastical
Government, as proposed by the Rev. Wm. Apollonius, of Middleburg,
under direction of the clergymen of New Zealand. Mr. Norton composed
this reply at the request of New England Ministers. It is able,
and classically written in Latin, and contains a valuable exposition
of Church usages among our fathers. It was the first book, composed
in that language, that was ever printed in this country. While
he was engaged about it, some of his people thought his sermons
not so good as usual. They desired Mr. Whiting,
of Lynn, to mention the subject to him. Mr. Norton took the admonition
in good part and gave it suitable heed. Fuller, in his "Church
History," says of this production, "Of all authors I
have perused concerning those opinions, none to me was more informative
than John Nortons; one of no less learning than modesty."
Mr. Norton sent a Latin letter to John Drury (who labored in vain
to promote pacification among the Reformed Churches), which was
signed by forty-three clergymen. 1646, Sept. 2d. As a member
of the Synod, convened at Cambridge, he preaches in Boston. His
discourse, as it was intended, led the church there to lay aside
their scruples about being represented in such an Assembly.
1647. He had an efficient hand in forming the Cambridge Platform.
He proposed to have some rules connected with it, as to the watch
which churches should have over their baptized children. But he
withdrew his motion because of some opposition, though similar
rules were adopted fourteen years afterwards. 1651, May
7th. Mr. Wm. Pynchon is to appear before the General Court, Dec.
14th, when Mr. Nortons Answer to his Treatise on Redempton
[sic] and Justification is to be ready. This reply was presented
the next Session and ordered to England to be printed.
After the death of the Rev. John Cotton, 1652, who advised his
church to obtain Mr. Norton, if they could, he began to preach
for them. They supposed that Ipswich Church would consent to part
with him for the greater good of the colony. In addition to this,
Mr. Norton had wished to return to England, and his people had
agreed, that, if he did not alter his mind, he might go. But when
they perceived that he was likely to reside in Boston, they demurred
as to his removing thither. Hence a sharp controversy arose between
the two churches. 1653, May 18th. The Legislature, lamenting
the decease of Mr. Cotton, congratulate Mr. Norton on his acceptance
of the call from Boston. This year he has much influence in preventing
a war with the Dutch at Minhadoes. After the death of Mr. Rogers,
the Ipswich Church renewed their claim on Mr. Norton. The Governor
and Magistrates called a council, stating, that, while such counter
claims were insisted on, there was danger that Mr. Norton would
carry into effect his previous design, of leaving the Colony.
The agitation of the question, what Mr. Norton ought to do, was
so long and so vehement, that it excited the fears of many, lest
it should seriously and extensively injure chief
priest in Boston, by the immediate power of the Lord, was smitten
and died." The delivery and discourses of Mr. Norton were
of the first order. His devotional performances were uncommonly
interesting. One of his church-members at Ipswich, after his removal
to Boston, would commonly walk thither, then about thirty miles
distant, so that he might hear him at the weekly lecture, and
would remark, "that it was worth a great journey to be a
partaker in one of Mr. Nortons prayers." This eminent
servant of the Lord knew what the frowns of enemies were, as well
as the smiles of friends. But his fortitude, based on Christian
principles, suffered him not to sink under the apparent and expressed
displeasure of his opponents. He was glad to have it in his power
so to act, as to merit and receive the approbation of the worthy,
while he pitied those who envied his fame, and prayed for their
highest welfare. He was, undoubtedly, one of the greatest divines,
who ever graced this or any other country. He was emphatically
"diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
As the result of this, many souls were given to him as the seals
of his ministry. He realized that all his earthly portion of honors
and enjoyments would soon pass away, and he purposed and acted
with a wise reference to an incorruptible heritage. When the message
of death came, it found him in his Masters service, and
quickly changed his mortal for an immortal existence, wherein
he might receive, with perfected saints, abounding knowledge,
improvement, engagedness, and bliss, in glorifying God for ever
and ever.
Guild of Pepperers in London. This guild is one of
the earliest of the 12 powerful guilds of London and undoubtably
was established well before 1180, almost certainly as a consequence
of discovering pepper during the Crusades. From the beginning,
these guilds controlled the flow of pepper and other spice into
England. By 1328 the guild had been formally registered as an
importer of spices in large, or gross, amounts: its members were
called grossarii, from which comes the modern word grocer. The
spicers and pepperers guild was granted a charter by Henry VI
as "The Grocery Company" to sell wholesale-vendre
en gros and to manage the trade in spices, drugs, and dye stuffs.
This organization was given the exclusive power to "garble,"
that is, to cleanse, separate, and select spices and medicinal
products. St. Anthony was the patron saint of the spicers, pepperers,
and grocers.
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Bonham
Norton was
the Kings printer and had arms assigned to him by Camden 1611. General
armory two; Alfred Morant's additions and corrections to Burke's
General armory, by Cecil R Humphery-Smith; Alfred William Whitehead
Morant; Bernard Burke, Sir Sheriff of Shropeshire 1611 d.Apr
5,1635 son Roger d.1661
THE name of
Norton appears no fewer than twelve times in the list of Masters
of the Stationers' Company, a record that is unlikely to be beaten.
In almost a century, between 1581 and 1687, two members of the family
held the office three times (William and Bonham); one, John, held
it twice, and the fourth and last (Roger) held it four times. The
first Master, in 1581-2 and two subsequent terms, was William Norton;
the second was his nephew, John, Master in 1607-8 and 1611-1612;
the third was William's son, Bonham, Master in 1613-14 and two subsequent
terms. The fourth and last was Bonham's grandson, Roger, who was
Master in 1678-9 and three subsequent terms. The family came originally
from Shropshire. William Norton was probably born in the parish
of Onibury in that county in 1526-7.
John
Norton was the son of Richard Norton
a yeoman of Billingsley county Shropshire he was nephew of William
Norton (1537-1593) and cousin of Bonham Norton and was thus connected
by marriage with the sixteenth century bookseller William Bonham
He was three times Master of the Stationers Company in 1607 1610
and 1612 On his death in 1612 he left 1000 to the Company of Stationers
not as is generally stated as a legacy of his own but rather as
trustee of the bequest of his uncle William Norton The bulk of his
property he left to his cousin Bonham Norton P.C.C. 5 Capell
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Somersetshire
Norton
Nicholas Norton b.1610 of Martha's Vineyard, MA
emigrated from Somersetshire, England and probably came from the vicinity
of Batcombe or Broadway in that county
These arms are
associated with this family:
In January of
1950, Mr. Henry Franklin Norton, curator of the Duke's County Historical
Society on Martha's Vineyard, very kindly sent me a coat of arms
which he permitted me to photograph. Data on the back of the frame
indicated that the coat of arms had been presented to the Norton
family at the time of "the War of the Roses", when a Norton
is supposed to have saved the King's life on the battlefield with
three thrusts of his sword. A copy of this coat of arms was presented
by Lord and Lady Warwick to Madame Lillian Norton (aka Lillian Nordica),
famous operatic soprano, a daughter of Edwin Norton, when she was
a guest of theirs in England. She later presented her cousin, Henry
Franklin Norton with a ring on which this coat of arms was engraved.
In 1925 when he visited Warwick Castle, the guide who was an authority
on heraldry, upon seeing the ring, proved by records available that
it was an authentic coat of arms given to ancestor Nicholas Norton.
contributed by Debora Norton Streadwick norstreads@gmail.com
...this is from the book written by Alton Ackley Norton Jr Appendix-
sheet "B"
Pedigree
of Nordica
William
Norton b.abt. 1535
tanner, of White Lackington, Sommerset about 1540 described
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WILLIAM
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Nicholas
Norton
b. (1562.from biography) alt b.1575 White, Somerset, , England
d. 1620 Broadway, Somerset, , England
removed from White Lackington with his father when a child,
and died there at the age of 54 years (1616) as described
in the chancery suit. That he was a man above the average
is shown by the fact of his occupying the position of church
warden of the parish (1599) but as the parish register does
not exist prior to 1678 it is not possible at present to determine
the names of but half of his eight children. The attested
copies of parish registers then required by church law preserved
the names of three of them and the chancery suit furnishes
the name of his eldest son. Unfortunately, the Bishops Transcripts
of Broadway Parish in the Diosceasan Registry at Wells for
the years 1609-11 inclusive, the particular years in which
we should undoubtedly find the baptism of our Nicholas whose
birth fell, as we know, within those years are missing from
the files.
Broadway,
situated in the Hundred of Bulstone, is so-called, because
it consists of one wide street leading from Ilminster two
miles distant to the Forest of Roche on the West. It has about
fifty houses with about 300 population and two religious edifices,
one belonging to the Church of England, dedicated to S. Aldhelm,
where the parents of Nicholas Norton worshipped, and a dissenting
chapel of which latter named the present minister is the Rev.
John W. Standerwick, a direct descendant of the Richard Standerwick,
who had the business dealings with Nicholas Norton. [*Edward
Poole, who was a neighbor of Nicholas Norton in Weymouth,
was an emigrant from Broadway also.]
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JOHN
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JAMES
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NICHOLAS
Norton, (the emigrant).
b. 1610 Broadway, Somerset, , England
d. 1676 Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA
He deposed in 1676 aged 66 years.
NICHOLAS undoubtedly found his wife Elizabeth Isaac in Weymouth,
or an adjoining town after his arrival in New England, but no
record of his marriage has been found and nothing to indicate
her family name. They had eleven children, four sons and seven
daughters; three of the formerIsaac, Joseph and Benjamin
left issue and in the following genealogy their descendants
will be divided for convenience sake into three "tribes"
named for these three sons respectively according to seniority.
By wife Elizabeth he had the following named
children:
ISAAC,2 b. 3 May 1641.
JACOB, b. 1 Mch. 1643; res. Edgartown and Barnstable. It is
not known that he ever married. He was living as late as 1691
(Deeds I. 252).
ELIZABETH, b. (1646); m. JAMES PEASE (50).
HANNAH, b. (1648); m. (1) AUGUSTINE WILLIAMS of Stonington,
Conn. (2) bef. 1703 _____ BROWNE of Killingworth, same state.
JOSEPH, b. Mch. 1651.
SARAH, b. (1665); m. JOHN STANBRIDGE of Newport, R. I.
PRISCILLA, b. (1666); m. JOHN BUTLER (10).
RUTH, b. (1667); m. MOSES CLEVELAND (10).
BENJAMIN, b. 1659.
ESTHER, b. (1668) ; m. (1) SAMUEL HUXFORD (1) [Contact George
Ballentine for more information on this Huxford family.]; (2)
JONATHAN DUNHAM (41)
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ISAAC
NORTON,
b. 3 May 1641 Weymouth, Massachusetts , farmer;
d. 1723 and his estate was adm. by his son Jacob.
Inventory showed property to the value of £73-6-6, which
was divided to the heirs 28 Mch 1723.
m. RUTH BAYES (10), abt. 1663, who was b. 2 July 1643.
Children:
HANNAH,3 b. (1664) ; m. JOSHUA DAGGETT (13).
ABIGAIL, b. (1666); m. (Richard?) WEEKS (5).
JACOB, b. (1668).
BENJAMIN, b. (1671).
SAMUEL, b. 1674.
SARAH, b. 1676, m. EBENEZER HAWES of Yarmouth, Mass. 22 Feb.
1699-1700.
THOMAS, b. (1678).
ISAAC, b. 1680.
RUTH, b. (1681); m. ISRAEL DAGGETT (18) 31 Jan. 1701.
JOSEPH, b. (1682).
MERCY, b. (1687); m. JAMES CLAGHORN (40) 30 Nov. 1715.
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Joseph
Norton
b. 1682 Went to CT.
b. abt. 1682; res. E., farmer. He was known legally as
Joseph "Tertia" to distinguish him from his
cousin Joseph (51) Jr., during the lifetime of the latter.
He was juror 1723,1732 and 1733, but he has left few other
public records of his three score and ten years and more
on the Vineyard. He lived on Great Neck in the southern
part of the town and on 31 Jan. 1753 deeded this homestead
to his only son. The name of his wife is not known but
from unconfirmed records she is stated to have been Sarah
Swain of Nantucket. But one child of this marriage is
known, although it may be presumed there were others,
perhaps daughters. Under date of Jan. 5, 1728-9, Parson
Homes of Chilmark notes in his diary: "The wife of
Joseph Norton of Old Town died lately." This may
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Norton Went to CT.
b. 9 Aug. 1715; res. E., farmer.
d. 28 Feb. 1812 in his 97th year.
m.1742 Deborah Smith who was b. 13 Sept. 1722.
He was sergeant of Militia in 1757. He rem. to Hebron,
Conn. abt. 1771, and
The descendants of this family are to be found in Conn.
and New York State.
They had the following named children:
JONATHAN,5
b. 16 Feb. 1743; m. RACHEL PHELPS; d. 20 Feb. 1840.
CATHERINE, b. 20 Oct. 1744; m. JOHN WASS (46).
ELIZABETH, b. 24 Sept. 1746; m. JOHN STEWART (93).
LOVE, b. 22 July 1750; m. PETER RIPLEY (25) 1781.
DAVID, b. 8 Feb. 1753.
JETHRO, b. 1 Jan. 1756.
ELIJAH, b. 9 Apr. 1759.
SOLOMON, b. 15 Dec. 1763.
EDWARD, b. 15 Dec. 1763.
DEBORAH, b. 3 Aug. 1768; d. unm.
The
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Morgan
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b.1804 CT (1860 census)
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Jacob
Norton
b.
1 Mar. 1643 Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA
d. 1691 Marthas Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA
res. Edgartown and Barnstable. It is not known that he ever
married. He was living as late as 1691 (Deeds I. 252).
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b. (1646); m. JAMES PEASE (50). |
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b. (1648); m. (1) AUGUSTINE WILLIAMS of Stonington, Conn. (2)
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JOSEPH
NORTON, (Ancestry test)
b. March. 1652; res. E., gentleman.
d. 30 Jan. 1741-2
This ancestor of the second branch of the family was one of
the leading citizens of the Vineyard and its first representative
to the General Court of Mass. in 1692. He was sheriff of the
county in 1699 and was commissioned as Justice of the Court
of Common Pleas in 1702. He resided at Major's Cove near Miober's
Bridge where he lived until his death, 30 Jan. 1741-2. His will
28 May 1741 was pro. 19 Oct. 1742. He was twice married (1)
MARY BAYES (14) abt. 1673 and (2) ANN TRAPP (12) abt. 1702;
she survived him and her will Sept. 1750 was pro. 7 Aug. 1753.
children:
By First Wife:
JOHN, b. 1674.
JOSEPH, b. (1676).
RACHEL, b. (1681); m. JOSHUA SMITH 17 JULY 1701.
LYDIA, b. (1685) ; m. RICHARD AREY (17) 6 Dec. 1705.
EBENEZER, b. 1691.
BETHIAH, b. (1693) ; m. WILLIAM MANCHESTER 16 Nov.1715.
ELIZABETH, b. (1696); m. NATHANIEL MANCHESTER 14 May 1716.
By Second Wife:
SYLVANUS, b. 22 Mch. 1703; d. Apr. 1720.
ANN, b. 9 Feb. 1705; m. JOSEPH PEASE (131).
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Ebenezer
Norton
b.1674 Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA
d.11 Apr 1769 Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA |
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Peter
Norton
b.9 Sep 1718 Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA
d.3 Feb 1792 Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA |
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Ephraim
Norton
b.28 Aug 1752 Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA
d.1839 Farmington, Franklin, Maine, USA |
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James
Instance Norton
b.8 Mar 1783Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA
d.1850 Farmington, Franklin, Maine, USA |
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Edwin
Norton father of Nordica
b.18 Dec 1818 Farmington, Franklin, Maine, USAd. 24 Dec
1880 Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA |
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b. (1665); m. JOHN STANBRIDGE of Newport, R. I. |
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b. (1666); m. JOHN BUTLER (10). |
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BENJAMIN
NORTON, b. 1659; res. E., farmer. He m. HANNAH _____ of whose
identity nothing is known nor the date of her birth or death.
He d. between Nov. 1733 and Jan. of the following year. Adm.
of his est. was granted at the last named date. They
had the following named children:
BENJAMIN,3 b. (1686). Living 1734; perh. m. HANNAH DAGGETT (31),
by whom he had a dau. Lydia.
NICHOLAS, b. (1687).
PHINEAS, b. (1689).
PRISCILLA, b. Jan. 1691; m. (1) JAMES MILLIKEN 25 Oct. 1718;
(2) HENRY BUTLER (19) 30 Dec. 1747.
JACOB, b. (1693).
MATTHEW, b. 22 Apr. 1696.
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b. (1668) ; m. (1) SAMUEL HUXFORD (1) [Contact George Ballentine
for more information on this Huxford family.]; (2) JONATHAN
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ROBERT
NORTON, who took up his residence in the cathedral city of
Wells where he followed the occupation of innholder and was
at the date of his death (1590) without issue. He left considerable
property to his nephews. Robert Norton of parish of S. Cuthbert,
Wells, innholder, at his decease had four water mills, which
he disposed of by will dated 1590, viz: two to his wife and
two to his brother William.
In 37
Elizabeth (1594) Joan the widow, William and Nicholas began
suit against William Norton the executor, and litigation was
continued by John, the son of Nicholas. The latter had followed
the prosecution of this suit for 22 years, according to the
complaint of John, to the ruin of his estate and in the end
"sickened & died with great greife & anguishe
of mince leavinge behinde him a poor widdowe and 8 children
(1616) whereof yor subject is the eldest, but not one pennye
towards their reliefe & maintenance other than the hopes
of the said decree, by means of whose death his wiffe &
children have nott only lost a careful! pvider for them but
also a possibilitie of an estate wch the said Nicholas had,
after the said William the executor, worth at least 200 marks."
[*Star Chamber Proceedings, (James I) 221/10, John Norton
of Broadway, Chapman, plaintiff vat William Norton et als
defendants. The compiler has much other material on this family,
which is omitted for want of space. Doubtless the complete
pedigree of this family could be worked out in England from
the authors' notes.]
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Miltary Norton Arms
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Found
in Gloustershire
(Related
to Nortons of York)

Norton,
az. three swords, conjoined at the pomels, in the fesse point,
ar. pomelled gu ; on a chief of the last, a lion pass. gu.
betw. two maunches erm.
Norton
az. three swords, in triangle, pomel to pomel, ar.
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Found
in Suffolk
(Related
to Nortons of York)

Norton,
az. three swords, conjoined at the pomels, in the fesse point,
ar. pomelled or ; on a chief of the last, a lion pass. gu.
betw. two maunches
Norton, az. three swords, in triangle, ar. hilts or ; on a
chief of the third, a lion pass. betw. two maunches, sa.
Norton,
gu. three swords, conjoined by the pomels, in triangle, ar.
hilts or.
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Found
in Norfolk and Suffolk

az. three
swords, one in pale, point upwards, surmounted of the other
two, in saltier, points downwards, ar. |
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NORTON
of Claines, Worcester
Azure three swords one in pale point
upwards the others in saltire points downwards argent on a
chief of the last a lion passant of the first
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William Norton of Claines, Worcester
High Sheriff in the 12th of Queen Anne (Related
to Nortons of York)
three daggers hilts in point fesse in chief a lion passant between
two maunches
Pcnn
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NORTON
Azure three swords one in pale point
upwards the others in saltire points downwards the dexter surmounting
the others argent on a chief of the second three gauntlets erect
proper Penn MS |
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[Coventry, Warwick.] .., three swords, their pomels conjoined,
and points extending to the corners of the escutcheon .. ; in
chief a lion pass. ... |
Norton,
[Berks.] gu. three pheons, in pale, the middlemost point downwards,
ar. |
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and Fulton co. Middlesex
Found
in Glouster

Three swords
in a triangle pomel to pomel argent, hilts or, on a chief or a
lion pass. gu between two manches ermine
Sir Sampson Norton
County Glouchester
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The arms
of Sampson Norton,
Knight, Master of the Ordinances of War to Henry VIII
NORTON SIR
SAMPSON
d 1617 surveyor of the ordnance and marshal of Tournay was related
to the Norton family of Yorkshire a member of which a rebel of 1569
was called Sampson Norton He was early engaged in the service of
Edward IV and was knighted in Brittany by Lord Brooke about 1483
probably during the preparation for war caused by the English dislike
of the Franco Burgundian alliance. In 1486 he was custumer at Southampton
and 6 Aug 1486 was appointed a commissioner to inquire what wool
and woolfels were exported from Chichester without the king's license.
The same year he received the manor of Tarrant Launceston in Dorset
in tail male. Machado met him in Brittany in 1490. He was also serjeant
porter of Calais and in office during the affair of John Flamank
and Sir Hugh Conway. see NANFAN SIB RICHARD In 1492 he was one of
those who received the French ambassadors in connection with the
Treaty of Etaples. In 1494 he was present at the tournaments held
when Prince Henry was created a knight. On 10 April 1495 he became
constable of Flint Castle and the office was renewed to him on 23
Jan 1508-1509. In 1509 he was created chamberlain of North Wales
He distinguished himself in Henry VIII's French wars holding as
he had held under Henry VII the office of surveyorof the ordnance
an important position involving the control of a number of clerks
and servants He may have been a yeoman of the guard in 1511 In 1512
he was taken prisoner at Arras and after some difficulty was set
free In February 1514 6 he was marshal of Tournay and was nearly
killed in a mutiny of the soldiers who wanted their pay On 11 Sept
1516 hé became chamberlain of the exchequer Norton died Feb
15, 1617 and was buried at All Saints Fulham where there was a monument
with an inscription now defaced. He married an illegitimate daughter
of Lord Zouch. Sampson Norton signed his will 1612 at Fulham, Middlesex.
Letters &c
Richard III and Hen VII ed Gairdncr Rolls Ser i 231 238 404 Jlater
for Hist of Hen VII ed Campbell Rolls Ser i 439 524 ii 409 532 562
Memorials of Hen VII ed tìairdnerl Rolls Ser pp 376 382 Chron
of Calais Camd Soc Lettcrsand Papers Hen Vili 15U9 17 Notes and
Queries 7th ser viii 9 133 215 Hutchins's Dorset W.A. 3 A
Sr Sampson Norton
knight b and Dame Elizabeth his wyffe base d to L Zouche who died
1517 He was Mr of ye Ordinance of warre to K.H. 8 Arms I Gu three
swords ar their pomels meeting in fess point or on a chief or a
lion passant gu between two maunches ermine Crest on a wreath a
demi dragon holding a sword II The same impaling Gu twelve bezants
and a canton enn over all a bend sinister az The
Topographer and Genealogist By John Gough Nichols
Sir Sampson
NORTON (ca.1450-1517)
1475Collector of petty customs in Hampshire. (H.P.pp.641-2)
1487M.P.Southampton. (ibid.)
20 Jun.1490 Knighted. (ibid.)
1492 Sent to Brittany as a commander. (ibid.)
He was at the reception for the French Ambassador. (ibid.)
1494 At Yorks creation. (ibid.)
5 Nov. Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. (C.F.R.1485-1509 p.214)
12 Nov. Appointed Master of the Ordnance. (H.P.pp.641-2)
1494-1516 Porter of Calais. (ibid.)
1495 Chamberlain of the Exchequer. (ibid.)
Constable of Flint Castle. (C.D.N.B.p.956)
1495-1509 Knight of the Body. (H.P.pp.641-2)
1509 At the funeral of Henry Tudor. (ibid.)
Chamberlain of North Wales. (C.D.N.B.p.956)
1512-15 Marshal of Calais. (H.P.pp.641-2)
1512-16 Fought in France; captured at Arras. (ibid.)
1515 Marshal of Tournay. (C.D.N.B.p.956)
1516 Chamberlain of the Exchequer. (ibid.)
Feb.1517 Died. (H.P.pp.641-2)
NORTON SIR SAMPSON
d 1517 surveyor of the ordnance and marshal of Tournay was related
to the Norton family of Yorkshire a member of which a rebel of 1569
was called Sampson Norton He was early engaged in the service of
Edward IV and was knighted in Brittany by Lord Brooke about 1483
probably during the preparation for war caused by the English dislike
of the Franco Burgundian alliance In 1486 he was custumer at Southampton
and 6 Aug 1486 was appointed a commissioner to inquire what wool
and woolfels were exported from Chichester without the king's license
The same year he received the manor of Tarrant Launceston in Dorset
in tail male Machado met him in Brittany in 1490 He was also serjeant
porter of Calais and in office during the affair of John Flamank
and Sir Hugh Conway see NANFAN SIB RICHARD In 1492 he was one of
those who received the French ambassadors in connection with the
Treaty of Etaples In 1494 he was present at the tournaments held
when Prince Henry was created a knight On 10 April 1495 he became
constable of Flint Castle and the office was renewed to him on 23
Jan 1508 1509 In 1509 he was created chamberlain of North Wales
He distinguished himself in Henry VIII's French wars holding as
he had held under Henry VII the office of sur veyorof the ordnance
an important position involving the control of a number of clerks
and servants He may have been a yeoman of the guard in 1511 In 1512
he was taken prisoner at Arras and after some difficulty was set
free In February 1514 6 he was marshal of Tournay and was nearly
killed in a mutiny of the soldiers who wanted their pay On 11 Sept
1516 hé became chamberlain of the exchequer Norton died 8
Feb 1516 17 and was buried at All Saints Fulham where there was
a monument with an inscription now defaced He married an illegitimate
daughter of Lord Zouche Another Samp sonNorton was a vintner in
Calais in 1528 and his house was assigned to the French for lodgings
in 1532 Letters &c Richard III and Hen VII ed Gairdncr Rolls
Ser i 231 238 404 Jlater for Hist of Hen VII ed Campbell Rolls Ser
i 439 524 ii 409 532 562 Memorials of Hen VII ed tìairdnerl
Rolls Ser pp 376 382 Chron of Calais Camd Soc Lettcrsand Papers
Hen Vili 15U9 17 Notes and Queries 7th ser viii 9 133 215 Hutchins's
Dorset W.A. 3 A
Dictionary
of National Biography By LESLIE. STEPHEN
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Related to Nortons
of York, specifically to Sampson Norton.
Norton, [Suff.]
ar. on a chev. engr. gu. betw. three fleurs- de-lis az. as many
ermine spots or; on a chief of the third, two swords, in saltier,
of the first, betw. as many maunches erm.Crest, a hare, sejant,
gu. in grass vert.
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Norton Berks
gu three pheons in pale the middlemost point
downwards ar
Norton Devonshire
ar a bar dancettée gu in chief two
martlets sa
Norton Ireland
gu a cross pattée erm Crest a spur
rowel az betw two wings or
Norton Northwood
Kent
gu a cross potent erm Crest a wolf's head
erased
Sheriffs in
Kent -Sir John Norton of Northwood, in Milton, in the 5th year.
Henry VIII
Sir Thomas Norton of Bobbing and Northwood, in Milton, in the
17th year. James I
The
Lady Dionisia died in 1404 and by her will desired to be buried
here in the Chapel of St Mary the Virgin Her will was dated April
23rd 1404 and was proved on the 16th of September following by
her executor John Cely Sir Richard atte Lese left no children
and the manor went ultimately to John Norton who had married Sir
Richard's niece and heiress Lucy daughter of Marcellus atte Lese
The Atte Lese arms gules a cross crosslet ermine seem to have
been adopted by the Norton family these arms remain
still in a north window of the north chantry they are four or
five times in that window
By the marriage
of Thomas son of William Norton of Faversham to Beatrix daughter
and heir of William Beverley this estate (Tancrea Island) passed
to the Nortons
The Manor
of Bonnington, alias Singleton, originally belonged to the Hospital
of St. John of Jerusalem and later became the property of Roger
Bregland or Brasland as the name is sometimes spelt, who had good
estates in East Kent. "They bore the arms sable 3, Cocks
argent, which coat is probably the Cobbes, who were descended
from the female line of this family and in some measure, took
the arms they bore from viz. argent, a chevron between three cocks
gules." Roger Bregland had married Dionisia, daughter and
heir of Bonnington, of this parish, by whom she had one son, Roger.
She survived him and afterwards married John Cobbes of Nevmburcb
and entitled him to the lands of her inheritance in the parish,
of which the Manor does not seem to have been a part, but to have
been purchased by him before - most probably of her former husband.
He died possessed of it in the 13th year of King Edward IV, 1472
and. by his will, divided it to Edward, his second son, remainder
to his eldest son William successively in tailmale, the former
who dying without issue, the latter succeeding to it and left
three sons, Gervase, Edward and George, the eldest of whom was
of Newchurch, and on his fathers death became possessed of it,
and dying without issue in 1512 gave all his estates to his two
brothers of whom Edward, the eldest, held the manor, of which
he died seized in 11 Henry VIIIth, then holding it in "capite"
which Anne or Alice, for she is called by both names, only daughter
and heir of his son Edward. Alice married, first Sir
Thomas Norton and afterwards John Cobham, alias Brooke,
third son of George, Lord Cobhmn, died 1580 buried at Newington
Church, with Alice who is also buried there where there is a brass
memorial to her. The estate was carried in marriage to Sir
John Norton of Northwood Kent, by whom he had a son Thomas,
whose grandson Sir Thomas Norton of Northwood Kent, in the beginning
of King James I reign, alienated; and to White whose son seems
to have sold it toValentine Knight of Sellinge."
Thomas Norton
nephew of John Norton of Northwood in Milton by his wife Beatrix
Beverley was the father of Valentine Norton Mayor in 1552 and
1562 and Valentine by his wife Isabella Hodgson had a sou Thomas
Norton who was Mayor in 1617 Aphra daughter of the last named
Thomas Norton married Henry Hawkins of Nash Court in Boughton
Bleat and died in 1605 6 aged 21 There is in Fordwich Church a
monumental brass to her memory Her father Mayor in 1617 died in
1625
In May 1584
John Cobham is named amongst the commoners as the Master in the
County of Kent, He married Alice, daughter and heir of Edward
Cobbe Esq., widow of Sir John Norton or Northwood, Knight. He
died in September 25th 1594
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Westminster Abbey. A memorial for Dame Grace Gethin (c1677 - 1697)
is on wall of the South Choir Aisle in Westminster Abbey. An annual
sermon is still preached in her name, as she left a sum of money
for that purpose.
To the pious memory of Dame Grace Gethin, wife of Sir Richard
Gethin of Gethin Grott in Ireland, Baronnet, Daughter of Sir George
Norton and Granddaughter of Sir George Norton, Knights, and great
granddaughter of Sir William Owen of Salop, Sir Thomas Freak of
Dorset and Sir Thomas Culpeper of Kent, Knights. Obiit 11 Oct 1697
at age 21.
Richard Norton of Waddeworth, york
(1357) sealed with arms of : A lion dormant.
The British
herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry
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by Thomas Robson - 1830 Below
is a new list of Norton arms that I have not processed yet.
Gules
Norton, gu. a chev. betw. three cross crosslets, or.
Norton, [Northwood,
Kent] gu. a cross, potent, ermine.- Crest, a wolf's head, erased.
Norton, gu.
a cross, potent, ermines.
Norton, gu.
a cross formée erm.
Norton, [Ireland]
gu. a cross pattée ern.Crest, a spur- rowel az. betw.
two wings or.
Norton, [Priory]
gu. a pale fusily or, within a bordure az. mitry or.
Norton, De,
gu. a pale fusily or.
Norton, gu.
three fleurs-de-lis or.
Norton, gu.
on a fesse erm. betw. three bugle-horns, stringed ar. as many boar
heads, erased, or.
Argent
Norton, ar.
a chev. betw. three crows' heads, erased, sa.
Norton, ar.
a chev. gu. betw. three crows' heads, erased, sa.
Norton, ar.
a chev. betw. three hinds, sa.
Norton, ar.
on a canton vert, a liou ramp. or.
Vert
Norton,
vert, a lion ramp, within a bordure engr. or.
Crest, a griffin's head or.
Pile
Norton,
ar. three piles, issuaut, in bend, points flory, sa. a fleur-de-lis
of the second for diff.
Norton, or,
a pile, triple pointed, flory, sa. issuing from the dexter chief,
bendways.
Norton, quarterly;
first and fourth, sa. a pile, triple pointed, flory, ar. issuing
out of the sinister base, bendways ; second and third, ar.
other
Norton, az.
on a fesse betw. three (Another, six) cross crosslets or, as many
escallops gu.
Norton, [London,
1611 ; and Stretten, Salop] or, two bars gu. ; on a chief az. an
escutcheon erm.Crest, a wreath of laurel vert, tied with a
ribbon gu. betw. two wings, expanded, or.
Norton, [Southcreak,
Norfolk.] sa. three covered cups or, within a bordure engr. ar.
Norton, [Devons.]
ar. a bar, dancettée, gu. ; in chief two martlets sa.
Norton, erm.
on a chief, indented, gu. three ducal crowns or, within a bordure
sa.
(source)
between 1298 and 1418
Norton Sir John of Kent H vL Roll bore gules a cross potent
ermine
(Arundel Roll 1413 Arundel Herald of Arms Extraordinary is a supernumerary
Officer of Arms in England. Though a royal herald, Arundel is not
a member of the College of Arms, and was originally a private herald
in the household of Thomas Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel. He is known
to have served the Earl both in Portugal in 1413 and later in France,
where he attended his dying master in October 1415.)
cross potent
Norton Richard E L Roll bore argent three cushions sable
(Jenyn Roll 1471 (Edw IV) William Jenyns Rouge Croix Pursuivant
of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of
Arms. The office is named after St George's Cross which has been
a symbol of England since the time of the Crusades.)
Norton Robert de E L Roll bore sable three piles floretee at
the points issuant from the sinister argent F
(Jenyn Roll 1471)
Norton Or three Piles in Bend each point enseigned with a Fleur
de lis Sable borne by the name of Norton
Norton Sir
Robert de bore at the batle of Boroughbridge 1322 argent a chevron
between three buckles sable tongues to the base in
the Ashmole MS F
Robert de Norton fought on the Kings side and signed up for
the battle Jan 15,1322 at Shrewsbury under Peter de Duvedale
also signed under Peter de Duvedale
Phillip Joce
John de Chaumpaigne
Gilbert son of Philip Destre
John son of Philip Patemere
Norton Roger lC in Roll bore argent a ehevron between three
cushions sable ( RlCHARD bore this without the chevron as above
)
Jenyns Ordinary
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