NORTON, John (?1497-1561), of East Tisted, Hants.

Family and Education

b. ?1497, 1st s. of Richard Norton of East Tisted by Elizabeth, da. of William Rotherfield alias Lyndhurst of Rotherfield. educ. prob. L. Inn, adm. 12 Feb. 1516. m. by 1530, Anne, da. of George Puttenham of Sheffield, 7 or 8s. inc. Richard 6da. suc. fa. 17 Feb. 1537.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., C142/58/118, and at Gardiner’s trial, Foxe, Acts and Mons. vi. 226-7. Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 14; VCH Hants, iii. 31; PCC 4 Crumwell, 9 Streat.

Offices Held

Recorder, Winchester by 1538 – 48; j.p. Hants 1538 – 47, q. 1554, western circuit 1540; commr. relief, Hants 1550, proclamations 1551, goods of churches and fraternities 1553, piracy 1556; sheriff 1556–7.Black Bk. of Winchester, ed. Bird, 161, 196; LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xv; CPR, 1547–8, p. 84; 1550–3, p. 142; 1553, pp. 353, 361; 1553–4, p. 19; NRA 10665; APC, v. 335.

Parlimentarian

NORTON, John (?1497-1561), of East Tisted, Hants.

Main residence: East Tisted, Hants.

Author

A.D.K.H.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

NORTON, John (?1497-1561)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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