NORTON-CONYERS, a chapelry in that part of
the parish of WATH which is in the wapentake of ALLERTONSHIRE,
North riding of the county of YORK,
S miles (N. by E.) from Ripon, containing 87 inhabitants.
This was the seat of Richard Norton, Lord Chief
Justice of England in the early part of the reign, of
Henry IV.; and subsequently of the gallant royalist,
Sir Richard Graham, who, having received numerous
wounds in. the battle of Marston Moor, and finding it
lost, fled to his hoxtse here, and died the same night.