Yatton Somerset
Judge Sir Richard Newton 1400-1444 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas aged 78 and 2nd wife Emmota / Emma Perrot de Sherborne 1475
Sir Richard Newton who died December 13th 1444 or 1448. He changed his name from Craddock , and was the west country's most senior judge. He was a lawyer at Middle Temple, and created a Serjeant-at-law in 1425, followed by a promotion to King's Serjeant & later Recorder of Bristol in 1430 where he had close ties; he also had links with Wales, where by September 1426 he had been appointed as an Itinerant justice to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester at his court in Pembrokeshire. In 1438 he led a commission of Oyer and terminer in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, and in November of that year he was appointed a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Less than a year later on 17 September 1439 he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, being granted £93 6s. 8d. as well as the usual fee. By July 1440 he had been knighted, and in 1441 he acted as an arbitrator to decide the dispute over the inheritance of Thomas Berkeley.
He was buried here at St Mary's church Yatton, leaving money to finance a bell for the church.
He also has a monument at Bristol Cathedral flic.kr/p/bxpsbH
He was the son of of John Newton de Craddock and Margaret Ferch Hywel daughter of Hywel Moethe ap Rhys
He m1 Emma c1420-c1449 co-heiress of Sir Thomas Perrot pf Islington and Alice daughter of Martha & William Picton of Newport
Children
1. Sir John Newton 1447-1488 m Isabel daughter of Thomas & Isabel Cheddar / de Cheddre
2. Thomas Newton m Joan daughter of John Barr
3. (?) Sir Peter Newton of Tabley Cheshire
4. (?) Joanna Craddock Newton m Alexander St. John, Lord of Uchelolau 1480
5. (?) Sir Matthew Newton alias Cradock of Albertawe Gwyr m Alice daughter of Philip Mansel and Mary Verch Griffith
6. (?) Sir Richard Newton of Tre Newydd Newcasted m Joanne ...
He m2 Emmota / Emma de Sherborne 1475 daughter of Sir John Perrott of Islington (or daughter of John Harvey)
For the greater part of the 15c century the Newton family enlarged, enriched, and beautified the church
www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Newton-Cradock-of-Barr-s-...
Yatton Somerset
Judge Sir Richard Newton 1400-1444 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas aged 78 and 2nd wife Emmota / Emma Perrot de Sherborne 1475
Sir Richard Newton who died December 13th 1444 or 1448. He changed his name from Craddock , and was the west country's most senior judge. He was a lawyer at Middle Temple, and created a Serjeant-at-law in 1425, followed by a promotion to King's Serjeant & later Recorder of Bristol in 1430 where he had close ties; he also had links with Wales, where by September 1426 he had been appointed as an Itinerant justice to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester at his court in Pembrokeshire. In 1438 he led a commission of Oyer and terminer in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, and in November of that year he was appointed a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. Less than a year later on 17 September 1439 he was made Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, being granted £93 6s. 8d. as well as the usual fee. By July 1440 he had been knighted, and in 1441 he acted as an arbitrator to decide the dispute over the inheritance of Thomas Berkeley.
He was buried here at St Mary's church Yatton, leaving money to finance a bell for the church.
He also has a monument at Bristol Cathedral flic.kr/p/bxpsbH
He was the son of of John Newton de Craddock and Margaret Ferch Hywel daughter of Hywel Moethe ap Rhys
He m1 Emma c1420-c1449 co-heiress of Sir Thomas Perrot pf Islington and Alice daughter of Martha & William Picton of Newport
Children
1. Sir John Newton 1447-1488 m Isabel daughter of Thomas & Isabel Cheddar / de Cheddre
2. Thomas Newton m Joan daughter of John Barr
3. (?) Sir Peter Newton of Tabley Cheshire
4. (?) Joanna Craddock Newton m Alexander St. John, Lord of Uchelolau 1480
5. (?) Sir Matthew Newton alias Cradock of Albertawe Gwyr m Alice daughter of Philip Mansel and Mary Verch Griffith
6. (?) Sir Richard Newton of Tre Newydd Newcasted m Joanne ...
He m2 Emmota / Emma de Sherborne 1475 daughter of Sir John Perrott of Islington (or daughter of John Harvey)
For the greater part of the 15c century the Newton family enlarged, enriched, and beautified the church
www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Newton-Cradock-of-Barr-s-...