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Nicholas Sutton ( 1440 – 1478) was an Irish judge who held the offices of Attorney General for Ireland and Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland). His career demonstrates how small the Irish legal world was at the time: his father held the same two offices, while his widow married his successor on the Court of Exchequer.〔Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921'' John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p.185〕 His will, which no longer exists, has been described as being full of "curious details".〔Ball p.103〕 He was born in Dublin, probably at St. Werburgh's Street, where the Suttons had a town house, and where he was buried. His father was William Sutton, who was Attorney General in about 1444 and then for many years a Baron of the Exchequer; his mother was Alison Darby.〔Ball p.179〕 He was Attorney General in 1473, and is recorded as being a Baron of the Exchequer in 1478: possibly he replaced his father who retired the previous year. Nicholas however died almost at once, two years before his father, and was buried in St. Werburgh's Church, Dublin.〔Ball p.183〕 Elrington Ball states that his will, which Ball had seen but which no longer survives,〔Presumably destroyed with countless other historical records in the burning of the Public Records Office during the Battle of Dublin in 1922.〕 showed evidence of extraordianary religious fervour, even by the standards of the age: he called himself a "clerk", which was the normal contemporary term for a celibate clergyman, and surely an unusual way for a married man to describe himself.〔Ball p.103〕 Should he have no other heirs, his lands were to be divided between St Werburgh's and St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin.〔Ball p.103〕 He left a legacy to his father, William, in return for his blessing, and numerous legacies to religious houses.〔Ball p.103〕 He had children by his marriage to Anne Cusacke;〔Ball p.183〕 in his will he commended his family to the care of Philip Bermingham, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.〔Ball p.103〕 A year after his death, Anne remarried his successor on the Court of Exchequer, Patrick Burnell, a member of the well-known Burnell family which produced a number of leading judges and politicians.〔Ball p.185〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Sutton (lawyer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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