Edward Norton (conspirator)
Edward Norton (baptised 1654 – 1702) was an English soldier and politician, an early Whig supporter and conspirator of the Rye House Plot.
Life
His sister Ellen married the
With others of the Whig faction, he was the target of a government attempt towards the end of 1681 to discredit opponents by establishing subornation of perjury. He appeared before the Privy Council, to answer charges laid by Robert Bolron, and Lawrence Mowbray.[4][5]
Norton attended meetings of the
Rye House Cabal around Robert West in December 1682, in which an assassination plot and a general armed uprising were discussed.[6] When the plot was discovered he escaped to Holland.[2]
In later life he supported the Glorious Revolution, and served in the army in the following decade.[2]
Notes
- ^ historyofparliamentonline.org, Trenchard, William (c.1643-1713), of Cutteridge, North Bradley, Wilts.
- ^ a b c historyofparliamentonline.org, Norton, Edward (1654-1702), of Ashe, Stourpaine, Dorset.
- ^ historyofparliamentonline.org, Westbury, 1660–1690.
- ^ Richard L. Greaves, Secrets of the Kingdom: British radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-89 (1992), p. 34; Google Books.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2799. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Richard Ashcraft, Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1986), p. 363; Google Books.