NORTON, Richard, of Worcester.

Norton was holding a tenement near the Foregate, Worcester, at the time of his single election to Parliament. As a bailiff in 1414 he presented to the chantry in the chapel of the Holy Trinity, which had been founded by a namesake of his in conjunction with other citizens in Edward III’s reign. Not long afterwards he was enfeoffed in the estates in Worcestershire and Warwickshire belonging to Ralph Arderne, a retainer of the earl of Warwick. During his second bailiffship he provided mainprise at the elections to the Parliament of 1415 on behalf of the lawyer, John Weston, with whom he had sat in the Commons in the previous year. He is not recorded after 1417.Collectanea (Worcs. Hist. Soc. 1912), 19, 38; Worcester Chs. 42, 55; T.R. Nash, Worcs. ii. app. 138-9; V. Green, Hist. Worcester, i. 245; C219/11/7; Warws. Feet of Fines (Dugdale Soc. xviii), 128.