Regicide.- Norton (Sir Gregory, first Baronet, politician and regicide, c. 1603-52).- To the right honourable the Comittee of Parliament to whome the bill of attainting of Oliver Cromwell & others..., manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank and docket mostly in a 19th century hand, folds, browned, folio, [c. 1660]. ⁂ A petition for mercy made at the Restoration, to parliament on behalf of Lady Norton, daughter-in-law of Sir Gregory Norton, whose husband had been imprisoned because of his father's attainder as one of the regicides of Charles I. Norton's estate, which included the royal manor of Richmond, was forfeited to the crown. Norton's son Henry, had been disinherited by his father as an "unnaturally disobedient son".
Regicide.- Norton (Sir Gregory, first Baronet, politician and regicide, c. 1603-52).- To the right honourable the Comittee of Parliament to whome the bill of attainting of Oliver Cromwell & others..., manuscript, 1p. with conjugate blank and docket mostly in a 19th century hand, folds, browned, folio, [c. 1660]. ⁂ A petition for mercy made at the Restoration, to parliament on behalf of Lady Norton, daughter-in-law of Sir Gregory Norton, whose husband had been imprisoned because of his father's attainder as one of the regicides of Charles I. Norton's estate, which included the royal manor of Richmond, was forfeited to the crown. Norton's son Henry, had been disinherited by his father as an "unnaturally disobedient son".
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