His success as a farmer and landlord enabled him to construct a manor at Lyndon, Rutland and purchase a baronetcy; on 9 September 1665 he was made a baronet, of Hambleton in the Baronetage of England.
They married, and in 1647 she wrote to a London merchant Augustine Crofts for blue watchett sarsenet to make bed curtains and for powdered bezoar stone.
Anne Burton also asked her sister Jane to shop for her and buy presents for her family including the "best fashioned gloves you can get."
Abel Barker wrote to Elizabeth Goodman at Blaston, advising against marrying her deceased husband's half-brother which he believed to be uncanonical.
Mary Noell accepted, and in 1661 she wrote from Hambleton to her husband at the Dog and Ball on Fleet Street about the prevalent sickness of whooping cough and the risk to their children.