12 HISTORY OF NORTON. 



government.) Shoemakers are crepidarii. There are coverlet 

 weavers, dish-turners, musical instrument makers, and one 

 " Marya Medley " is described as a " chimni sweeper." 



Moreover, amongst the burials, short biographical notices are 

 not unfrequent. Emmina Gill, wife of Edward Gill, of Norton, 

 appears to have possessed rare virtues. She is said to have been 

 " the delight of her neighbours," or in the extrordinary Latin of 

 the register, delirium de proximis. The registrar, that is, I 

 suppose, the vicar, says he has sung her praises at the end of the 

 volume (quce horum nominum inscriptor in fine hujus registri dignis 

 laicdibus extollere conatur.) I thought I had made a pleasing 

 discovery, and turned to the end of the volume, expecting to see 

 a copy of elegiacs, but, alas ! neither verse nor prose was to be 

 found. On Feb. ist, 1609, the death is recorded of William 

 Brownell, in artibics bacca/aureus, RatunCshie [Rawmarsh] in com' 

 ebo^ pedagogics, qui zeli, pietatis, erudirionis, et humanitatis insigne 

 specimen prebebat ' ; and on Nov. 5th, 17 17, died John Staniland, 

 c/er,' A.B. et hidimagister Schoice de Norton. So it seems the 

 school had then for its master a clergyman, and a Bachelor of 

 Arts. 



The register contains the names of several families of renown — 

 The Kirkes of Greenhill, London, and Dieppe, conquerors and 

 colonizers of Canada and Newfoundland ; the Seliokes and 

 Freschvilles, of Hazelbarrow ; the Parkers, ancestors of Lord 

 Chancellor Macclesfield, are there. The following entry will 

 show emphatically the high position of the Parkers. " 1609, Jul. 

 20. Johannes Parker filius et apparens heres /ohannis Parker de 

 Lees armigeri ex Maria uxore ejus cognometito per patrem Afason. 

 Gilbertus comes Salop 1 , Joh'es dominus Darcie, et domina Cavendish 

 uxor Caroli Cavendishe consponsatoresJ" Andrew Marvell, father 

 of the statesman and patriot, married his second wife at Norton. 

 Her name was Lucy Harris, a daughter of John Alured, of 

 Charter House, by Eleanor, daughter of Ralph Constable, of St. 

 Sepulchre's. She married three times, (a) Francis Darley, of 

 Kilnhurst, near Rotherham ; (b) William Harris, of Oaken 

 Thorpe, in Derbyshire ; and (c) Andrew Marvell, the father. 



