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Memorandum Book of Sir Walter Claverley, Bart.
In Print Source: Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries [second volume], 43-148 Document Type: Diary Date: Number of Objects:Attached People: Subject of/in a document - Threapland, Samuel (1647-16 Apr 1707)
Subject of/in a document - Arthington, Cyril (c.1665-1724)
Subject of/in a document - Thornton, Richard (05 Aug 1659-06 Oct 1710)
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Annotation:"Cyril Arthington, Esquire, J.P., F.R.S., built the ball at Arthington, before 1712 (Thoresby). His will and codicil are among the Calverley papers in the British Museum.-Add. MS., 27,410, Nos. 255 and 260. They are dated 1716 and 1723" (60 n61).
"Richard Thornton, Recorder of Leeds (obt. 6 Oct., 1710, set 51), was the son of John Thornton, by Judith, his wife, daughter of Mr. Richard Richardson, of Bierley. He married Bridget, daughter of Christopher Watkinson, who was Mayor of Leeds in 1668. (Thoresby's Leeds, 1816, p. 26). He lived at Red Hall, Leeds, and is styled by Thoresby (Leeds, p. 25), 'the Learned, Ingenious, and Pious Richard Thornton, Esq., heir male of the ancient Family of Thornton, of Thornton and Tyersal, both in the West Riding'of Yorkshire, whose noble Collection of Manuscripts has been of singular Advantage unto me in this Undertaking, and yet the Benefit received from his personal Instruction and Assistance has been infinitely more.' " (Memorandum Book of Sir Walter Claverley, Bart. (89 n.77).