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The author continues his work on Newton-type methods for solving abstract nonlinear equations in Banach spaces numerically, cf. also \textit{I. K. Argyros} [Polynomial operator equations in abstract spaces and applications, CRC Press UC, Inc., Boca Raton/Florida (1998)]. The method under consideration reads as \[ x_{n+1}= x_n- A(x_n)^{-1} F(x_n),\quad n= 0,1,\dots, \] where \(F\) is a continuous nonlinear operator defined on an open convex subset \(D\) of a Banach space mapping into another Banach space. The author provides a unifying semilocal convergence theorem by introducing a majorizing functional for the w.r.t. the choice of \(A\) different Newton-like methods. Known results are special cases of the theorem proved by the author. The idea is to give an upper bound for \(\| A(x)^{-1}F(x)\|\) in terms of an appropriate functional.