An ancestor of mine, Edward Williams (1583-1660s) was engaged by Richard Norton's father, Sir Daniel Norton, as a tutor to his eldest son Daniel, but was I believe also acting as a puritan minister in his private chapel, where Charles I was worshipping when he heard the news of Buckingham's assassination in 1627. Edward's children by Jane Langford (1604-1680) were baptized with members of Norton's circle as sponsors, including Lady Honor Norton, Anthony Ashley Cooper (only 13 at the time), Sir William Uvedale and others. It seems clear that the Nortons, though puritan, were by nature royalist, despite Richard's close friendship with Cromwell. Jane Langford's first cousin Christabel Pyne, wife of Col. Edmund Wyndham, features in Pepys's diary as a woman with great influence over Charles I, and, according to Antonia Fraser, was Charles II's first lover at Bridgewater in 1645, where her husband was governor.
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An ancestor of mine, Edward Williams (1583-1660s) was engaged by Richard Norton's father, Sir Daniel Norton, as a tutor to his eldest son Daniel, but was I believe also acting as a puritan minister in his private chapel, where Charles I was worshipping when he heard the news of Buckingham's assassination in 1627. Edward's children by Jane Langford (1604-1680) were baptized with members of Norton's circle as sponsors, including Lady Honor Norton, Anthony Ashley Cooper (only 13 at the time), Sir William Uvedale and others. It seems clear that the Nortons, though puritan, were by nature royalist, despite Richard's close friendship with Cromwell. Jane Langford's first cousin Christabel Pyne, wife of Col. Edmund Wyndham, features in Pepys's diary as a woman with great influence over Charles I, and, according to Antonia Fraser, was Charles II's first lover at Bridgewater in 1645, where her husband was governor.