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bap. 25 Mar. 1593, 1st s. of Robert Norton of Swinton, Masham, Yorks., and Catherine, da. and h. of John Staveley of Swinton. m. 4 Mar. 1622, Anne (bur. 23 Dec. 1683), da. of Sir George Wandesford of Kirklington, 4s. (3 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. Feb. 1638; bur. 12 Dec. 1673 12 Dec. 1673.Dugdale’s Vis. Yorks. ii. 92-3.
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Local: commr. sewers, Yorks. (N. Riding) 28 Apr. 1632, 9 May 1664.C181/4, f. 114v; C181/7, p. 248. Paymaster, dissolved garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed, 16 May 1633-Dec. 1640.E351/3513–19; Coventry Docquets, 186. Recvr. crown revenues, archdeaconry of Richmond (Yorks.), co. Dur. and Northumb. 1 July 1640-c.June 1644, by Nov. 1660–17 Aug. 1669.E126/5, f. 320; SC6/CHAS1/1660, 1682–3; SP19/121, ff. 58, 60; E113/7, pt. 1; E134/15CHAS2/MICH29; CTB iii. 278, 667; CSP Dom. 1670, p. 133. Commr. array (roy.), Yorks. 4 July 1642.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol. J.p. N. Riding by 1643–?44.N. Riding QS Recs. ed. J. C. Atkinson (N. Riding Rec. Soc. iv), 234. Commr. assessment, Yorks. 1 June 1660;An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). N. Riding 1661, 1664, 1672; loyal and indigent officers, Yorks. 1662; subsidy, N. Riding 1663.SR. Recvr. hearth tax, archdeaconry of Richmond, co. Dur. and Northumb. by 1667–?CTB ii. 49.

: of St Nicholas, Yorks., Richmond.
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Commons 1640-1660
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NORTON, Major (1593-1673), of St Nicholas, Richmond, Yorks.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1632, purchased mills at Richmond for £420. In 1635, purchased Castle Mill and Church Mill, Richmond, for £600, at a rent to the crown of £50 p.a.Clarkson, Richmond, 249, 329. In 1646, estate consisted of closes and mills in Richmond and lands and tenements in Exelby, Newton Morrell, Richmond, Swinton and Warthermarske, Yorks. worth £240 p.a. bef. the war. He was also possessed of two annuities worth £55. His eldest s. Edmund was in possession of the family’s principal residence, the dissolved hospital of St Nicholas, in Richmond, worth £100 p.a. bef. the war, and lands in Clow Beck, Yorks., worth £40 p.a. The Nortons’ estate was charged with annuities of £80 p.a.SP23/187, pp. 175, 185; Yorks. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J. W. Clay (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xviii), 53-4; Clarkson, Richmond, 255. In 1651, Norton’s estate inc. a messuage in Bargate, Richmond, several closes in the town and town fields and a ‘decayed castelet’ at nearby Hudswell.Clarkson, Richmond, 330.
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
the house of Alderman Henry Thompson, York (1642-3);SP19/121, f. 63. The King’s Head, Gray’s Inn Lane, St Andrew Holborn, London (1656).Add. 34014, f. 43.
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