NORTON, Thomas (by 1532-84), of London and Sharpenhoe, Beds.

Family and Education

b. by 1552, 1st s. of Thomas Norton, grocer of London, by Elizabeth, da. of Robert Merry of Northaw, Herts. educ. Michaelhouse, Camb. matric. c.1544, MA 1570; I. Temple 1555. m. (1) Margaret, da. of Thomas Cranmer, abp. of Canterbury, s.p.; (2) by 1568, Alice, da. of Edmund Cranmer, bro. of Thomas, 4s. 2da. suc. fa. 10 Mar. 1583.DNB; C142/203/12; N. and Q. (ser. 3), iv. 480; Harl. 1234, f. 113; 1547, f. 45v; Her. and Gen. iii. 276.

Offices Held

Servant of Protector Somerset by 1550; freeman, Grocers’ Co. 1558; counsel to Stationers’ Co. 1562; remembrancer, London 6 Feb. 1571, ?garbler of spices Mar. 1583 – d.; commr. to examine Catholic prisoners 1578 – 83, for Guernsey 1579, for Sark 1583; censor for bp. of London by 1581; solicitor to Merchant Taylors’ Co. 1581.Archaeologia, xxxvi(1), pp. 106, 115; Lansd. 33, f. 150; 48, f. 188; APC , viii. 319; xi. passim; xii. 62, 88–9, 264–5; xiii. 37, 144, 164–5; CSP Dom. 1581–90, p. 48.

Parlimentarian

NORTON, Thomas (by 1532-84), of London.

Main residences: London; Sharpenhoe, Beds.

Author

P.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

NORTON, Thomas (by 1532-84)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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