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 raised forces in Devonshire against the King. He was taken prisoner in 1643 at the capitulation of Exeter, but was exchanged, and resumed his seat in Parliament in 1645. In 1648 he was excluded from Parliament by the army, and in 1651 was removed from the list of justices of the county. He sat, however, in the Convention Parliament, 1660, in which he supported the Restoration. He died in the month of June, 1676, and was buried at St. Cyres.

Admitted 5 February, 1667-8.

Second son of William Northey of the Middle Temple, one of the Masters of the Bench, formerly Reader, and afterwards Treasurer of the Inn, 1670. Educated at St. Paul's School and Queen's College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar 29 May, 1674. He became a Bencher 12 Feb. 1696-7, Autumn Reader in 1698, and Treasurer in 1701. He was made Attorney-General in succession to Sir Thomas Trevor in 1701, and held the office till 1707, and again from 1710 to March, 1718. He was knighted in 1702. He was engaged in many State trials, particularly that of David Lindsay for high treason, 1704. He for some time represented Tiverton in Parliament, and died in 1723.

Admitted 8 November, 1682.

Son and heir of John Northleigh of Exminster, Devon. He was born at Hamburgh in 1657. He graduated B.C.L. at Oxford in 1681, and became a Fellow of All Souls' there in 1688. Meanwhile he matriculated also at Cambridge where he was elected Fellow of King's College, and graduated LL.D. and M.D. He died 17 Jan. 1705.

He left behind him several treatises of a philosophical and political character, but he is chiefly remembered for his defence of James II. in a work entitled Parliamentum Pacificum (1688), and for a controversy with Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, which it engendered.

NORTHUMBERLAND, EARLS OF. See PERCY, ALGERNON, and PERCY, HENRY.

Admitted 14 November, 1734.

Only son of Thomas Norton of Grantley, Yorks. He was called to the Bar 6 July, 1739, and after long waiting for practice became leader on the Northern Circuit. He was made King's Counsel in 1754, and on 3 May in the same year a Bencher of his Inn. Shortly afterwards he was appointed Attorney-General for the county of Lancaster. He then entered Parliament, became Solicitor-General and a knight in 1762, and in the following year Attorney-General. In this capacity he took part in many celebrated trials, as also in many famous debates in the House of Commons, of which in 1770 he was elected Speaker, an office which he retained till 1780, when he retired in favour of Speaker Cornwall. Two years later he was raised to the peerage as Baron Grantley. He died in 1789, and was buried at Wonersh in Surrey. He was Autumn Reader and Treasurer of the Inn in 1762.

Fletcher Norton (1744—1820), second son of the preceding, was admitted