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We may note in these charters the changes by which the 
Totinglei of the Doomsday Survey has become the Totley of 
to-day. It became Totenley, Tontonley, Totingley, and so on. 
Totley (Tottle) was the name of a royal park, near Burstwick, in 
Holderness. By an inquisition taken in 1298 it was found, on 
the oaths of certain men of Holderness, and amongst them Ralph 
de Welwick, that a portion of that park had been enclosed. This 
fact again appears to point to the connection between the Holmes 
and the Welwicks of Holderness and the villages of Holmesfield 
and Totley. The word of itself seems to be related to fof and 
turf, and to mean an enclosure. 
* Leonard Gill, gentleman,” mentioned in the last document as 
possessing a lead-mill or smelting-house at Totley, resided at 
Norton, probably at Norton House—a large and beautiful old 
mansion lately pulled down, where the letters ‘‘ Le. G.” were 
inscribed on the finely-decorated mantel-piece of the best apart- 
ment. He had a shot manufactory at Greenhill, near Norton, 
through which, in 1626, he incurred the suspicions of the Privy 
Council. He carried on the manufacture of shot along with John 
Bloodworth, a silkman, of London On these matters I hope to 
say more in a future paper, but I here subjoin an extract from the 
“Local Notes and Queries” of the Sheffield and Rotherham 
Independent :— 
Norton Ilousr.—As this old mansion is now in the course of demolition, 
and will shortly be among the things which have passed away, it may not, 
perhaps, be uninteresting to some of the readers of your notes and queries to 
receive a parting notice of it. 
Understanding that there was much about the place not unworthy of 
observation, especially in the way of ancient woodwork, the writer, with 
several friends, paid a visit to it on Friday last, September 28, but unhappily 
a day too late to see the dining-room panels attached to its walls. 
The house is a very substantial, well-built structure, of the early part of the 
17th century, with a few windows inserted and other small alterations made 
about a century later. It consists of a body with projecting wings, and was 
evidently erected as the residence of a family of good position. It has an 
entrance hall of good size, panelled throughout, but not in a very rich style, 
and various rooms below and above of goodly dimensions, but somewhat low. 
The principal of these is the dining room already alluded to, which is on the 
