William de Notton

He acquired the manors of Fishlake, which he bought from John de Wingfield, Monk Bretton and Woolley Hall in Yorkshire, as well as Litlington, Cambridgeshire,[2] and Cocken Hatch near Royston, Hertfordshire.

In 1353 he sat on a wide-ranging commission to inquire into all serious crimes committed in the lands granted by the King to Queen Philippa as her personal estates.

The grant may have been inspired by the recent ending of the first outbreak of the Black Death, a time when many people felt a sense of thanksgiving for their deliverance from the plague, together with an increased awareness of their own mortality.

In 1357 he was appointed to a powerful commission to inquire into an alleged affray between a servant of John Gynwell, Bishop of Lincoln and members of the Order of Hospitallers.

[5] He sat on another judicial commission later in the same year to inquire into the death, presumed to be murder, of George de Longueville, described as "chevalier" (knight), at Billing, Northamptonshire.

[1] By his wife Isabel he had at least two children, but much of his property passed to Sir William Fyncheden, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in England, who died in 1374.