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their mark on the history of their times. Robert Sutton, 

 first Baron Lexington, was one of King Charles's 

 staunchest soldiers in the great war with the Parliament. 

 His defence of Newark for his Royal master was so 

 stubborn and gallant as to earn for him the name of 

 " the Devil of Newark " from the Roundheads, who in 

 the hour of their triumph made him suffer bitterly for 

 his loyalty, for his estates were sequestrated, and the 

 Parliament ordered Lord Lexington to pay out of his 

 revenues a fine of 5,000 to Lord Grey, of Wark, who 

 was to enjoy possession of the estate until the heavy 

 fine equivalent to ten times the amount nowadays 

 was paid. For these sacrifices in the cause of loyalty 

 it is perhaps needless to say that Lord Lexington was 

 not reimbursed when Charles II. came into his own 

 again. Gratitude, other than verbal, was never a 

 characteristic of the Stuarts. 



The Suttons had been a wealth-acquiring family 

 from an early period, and had spent their wealth nobly. 

 Sir Richard Sutton, who died in 1524, was co-founder 

 with William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln, of Brasenose 

 College, Oxford. Thomas Sutton, his son, sometime 

 Master-General of Ordnance, amassed a great fortune 

 as a merchant, and founded the Charterhouse. 



Mother Church, too, has had distinguished sons among 

 the Suttons. Christopher, a learned and eloquent Doctor 

 of Divinity, in two notable treatises essayed to teach his 

 contemporaries of the seventeenth century how to die 

 and how to live. And Charles Manners Sutton is re- 

 membered by men still living as the urbane, scholarly, 

 and polished Archbishop of Canterbury. 



