Richard Hutton (judge)

Sir Richard Hutton bought out the claimants to the estate and built the present Goldsborough Hall to the south east of the village on raised ground close to the church.

He held these offices until 1617 when he was knighted by King James I on a visit to York and made judge of the Court of Common Pleas (England).

Goldsborough Hall and his estates then passed to his son and heir, Sir Richard Hutton, the younger (knighted in 1625).

Ship Money and Mr Justice Hutton by Wilfrid Prest, published in History Today Volume: 41 Issue: 1 January 1991.

Wilfrid Prest used Sir Richard Hutton's diaries to illustrate the attitudes and issues behind one of the constitutional set pieces of Charles I's reign