2. Thomas Noble, ed., History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby... (1829),     235.

3. Visitation of Wiltshire, 1623"; Harleian MS 1443, 5529, British Museum; Rev. W.H. Jones, Bradford-on-Avon (1907), appendix table; Rev. J. Wilkinson, "The Hortons of Broughton Gifford" in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 5 (1859):312-325; Kenneth G. Ponting, Wool & Water; Bradford-on-Avon and the River Frome. (1975) (see index for numerous references); G.D. Ramsay, The Wltshire Woollen Industry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1965), 40-42; Peter Ryan, The National Trust (1974), 347.

4. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry…4 vols. Small paper edition. (1837) 1:283-84; John~Horton, "Chosen by England's Judges: History of the Horton Family in Australia" (unpublished) (1982).

5. L.G.H. Horton-Smith, "The Hortons of Leicestershire," in Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society 22: pt. 1, (1941): 96-116. In 1943 and 1946, these two articles were reprinted as pamphlets, with different pagination. I have used the pamphlet form and pagination. Hereafter cited as H-S. Harleian MS. 1476, f. 92, British Museum, cited in H.F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England, 2 vols.(1907;1981 reprint), 1:258