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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 Westbury Member of Parliament William Trenchard.〔(historyofparliamentonline.org, ''Trenchard, William (c.1643-1713), of Cutteridge, North Bradley, Wilts''. )〕 With Trenchard's support, Norton was himself elected MP for Westbury in the second 1679 general election, though it required an election petition to unseat Henry Bertie and Richard Lewis who had been declared the winners.〔(historyofparliamentonline.org, ''Norton, Edward (1654-1702), of Ashe, Stourpaine, Dorset''. )〕〔(historyofparliamentonline.org, ''Westbury'', 1660–1690. )〕 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.〔Richard L. Greaves, ''Secrets of the Kingdom: British radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-89'' (1992), p. 34; (Google Books ).〕 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.〔Richard Ashcraft, ''Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government'' (1986), p. 363; (Google Books ).〕 When the plot was discovered he escaped to Holland.〔 In later life he supported the Glorious Revolution, and served in the army in the following decade.〔 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「Edward Norton (conspirator)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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