_Judge Cradock, afterwards Newton._--MR ELLACOMBE (Vol. ii., p. 249.),
in his notice of a monument in Yatton Church to "Judge Newton, _alias_
Cradock," says, "the arms of Cradock are _Arg._ on chevron _az._ three
garbs _or_." Richard Cradock, he adds, "was the first of his family who
took the name of Newton." Does MR. ELLACOMBE mean that the above arms
were those of the _Cradock family_, or that this Richard Cradock assumed
the coat as well as the name of _Newton_? The above was the bearing of
the family of Newton, of East Newton, in the North Riding of York. The
eldest daughter and coheir of John Newton of East Newton was married to
William Thornton, which family thus became possessed of the estate of
East Newton, and quartered the coat assigned by MR. ELLACOMBE to
Cradock. I should be glad to know the occasion on which Richard Cradock
assumed the name and arms of Newton, as well as the connexion between
these Newtons and those settled at East Newton.