A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1838)
f Witton Castle, and represents,through the female line, that family, weshall direct our attention chiefly to theThornton pedigree. Roger de Thornton, (son of HodgkinThornton), a merchant in Newcastle, wasborn, according to Leland, at Witton, andfrom a very humble beginning raised thelargest… … 330 TREVELYAN, OF NETHERWITTON. In at the Westgate came Thornton inWith a happen hapt in a rams skin. Bourne, speaking of the Westgate, statesthat it was thought to have been built byRoger de Thornton, in commemoration ofhis having come from the West countryaccording to the old distich: At the…
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