19 THE LIFE OF JOHN HUTCHINSON, OF OWTHORPE, IN THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM, ESQUIRE. HE was the eldest surviving sonne 9f Sr. Thomas Hutchinson, and the lady Margarett, his first wife, one of the daughters of Sr. John Biron, of Newsteu, in the same county, two persons so eminently vertuous and pious in their generations, that to descend from them was to sett up in the world upon a good stock of honor, .which oblieg'd their posterity to improove it, as much as it was their privelledge to inheritt their parents glories. Sr. Thomas was he that ·remoov'd hi5 dwelling to Owthorpe; his father, though he was possessor of that lordship, having dwelt at Cropwell, another towne, within two miles wherein he had an inheritance, which if I mistake not was the place where those of the family that begun to settle the 11ame in this county first fixt their habitation. The famely for many . generations past have bene of good repute in Yorkshire, and there is yett a gentleman in that connty, descendant of the elder house, that possesses a faire estate and reputation in his father's auncient inheritance." They have bene in Nottinghamshire for generaLions; wherein I observe that as if there had bene an Agrarian law in the famely, assoon as they arrived to any considerable fortune beyond " .At ViTykehamAbbey, in the county of York, where tt is belie\·ed they still reside.
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