Judge Cradock, afterwards Newton

MR ELLACOMBE (Vol. ii., p. 249.), in his notice of a monument in Yatton Church to "Judge Newton, *alias* Cradock," says, "the arms of Cradock are *Arg.* on chevron *az.* three garbs *or*." Richard Cradock, he adds, "was the first of his family who took the name of Newton." Does MR. ELLACOMBE mean that the above arms were those of the *Cradock family*, or that this Richard Cradock assumed the coat as well as the name of *Newton*? The above was the bearing of the family of Newton, of East Newton, in the North Riding of York. The eldest daughter and coheir of John Newton of East Newton was marrie…