4 HISTORY OF NORTON. 



Manor of Norton, with the appurtenances, which was lately in the possession of 

 Thos. Denham, Esq., reserving his other estates in the parish of Norton and 

 Dronfield. (1587, April 24). Gervase Eyre, son of the said Anthony Eyre, 

 conveys to Anthony Blythe, of Birchet, one moiety of the Manor of Norton, 

 which sometime was the inheritance of Thos. Denham, Esq. (N.B. — The 

 wife of Anthony Blythe, and the mother of Charles, was called Honor). 

 (1624, May 28). Chas. Blythe, son of the said Anthony and Judith his 

 wife, also Thos. Wentworth, of Wales, co. York, gentleman, and Honor, his 

 wife, convey to John Bullock, of Darley, the whole of the Manor of Norton 

 for £220, with all its appurtenances, free warrens, courts baron, and leet 

 views of Frank-pledge, felons' goods and wards, marriages, reliefs, goods, 

 waifs and estrays. (N.B. — Anthony and Chas. B. were Lords of the Manor 

 of Dronfield.) (1615 and 1616). Courts were held in the names of Barbara 

 Frechville, deed., widow, guardian of Charles Blythe, Esq., son of 

 Anthony Blythe. (1617 and 1618). Courts held in the names of 

 Richard Bland, Esq., and Barbara, his wife, guardian of Chas. Blythe, 

 Esq., son and heir of Anth. B., during his minority, lords of the Babyngton 

 moiety, (extracted from old deeds in the possession of Samuel Shore, Esq.) 

 (157 1 ) Sept. 5). Marmaduke Babyngton, of Norton, was possessed of one 

 moiety of the manor, and one moiety of various estates in Norton and Cold 

 Aston. (1574). Henry Babyngton of the same. (1585, 20 May). 

 Anthony Babyngton, of Dethick, conveys one-half of Norton Hall, with 

 one-half of various lands, mentioned by name, to John Bullock, of Darley, 

 Esq., for ,£400, but does not dispose of the moiety of the manor. 

 (1587, 27 July). Fras. Babyngton, of Kingston, co. Notts., and Geo. 

 Babyngton, of Dethick, brothers of the late Anthony B., convey to Anthony 

 Blythe, of Birchet, one-half part of the Manor of Norton, for ^190. 

 The preceding pages show how the whole manor passed from the Blythes to 

 the Bullocks. Thus, it appears that the Manor House at Norton, called 

 Norton Hall, and the estates there and at Cold Aston, after being for some 

 time held in moieties, were united again in the Bullocks, by the purchase of 

 one moiety in the year 1572, from John Denham to John Bullock, of the 

 Inner Temple, gent., and by the purchase of the other moiety in 1585, 

 by the said John Bullock, then of Darley, Esq., from Anthony Babyngton. 

 The manor was reunited in the person of Anthony Blythe, Esq., when he 

 bought one moiety in 1587 of Fras. and Geo. Babyngton, and in the same 

 year the other moiety of Gervase Eyre. Chas. Blythe, the son of Anthony, 

 sold in 1624, the whole Manor of Norton, to John, son of the late John 

 Bullock, of Darley, after which purchase the said John Bullock became sole 

 proprietor of the Manor of Norton, and of the various estates in Norton and 

 Cold Aston. Norton and Cold Aston were formerly the inheritance of the 

 Denhams and Babyngtons. 



