CROMWELL, Oliver (1599-1658). Autograph letter signed (“O Cromwell”) to Colonel Richard Norton (1615-1691), 3 April 1648. Two pages, 200 x 305mm, bifolium (laid down on paper). Cromwell writes to a family friend regarding negotiations for his son’s marriage : "I desire you to carry this business with all privacy. I beseech you to do so, as you love me. Let me entreat you not to lose a day herein, that I may know Mr. Mayor's mind." Cromwell hoped his eldest son Richard would marry Dorothy, the daughter of Richard Mayor of Hursley in Hampshire. It was a telling choice: “Had Oliver at this time cherished the bold schemes for dominion which his enemies impute to him, he would never have sought this obscure alliance with the daughter of a country gentleman” (Church, Oliver Cromwell , 294). Lengthy negotiations ensued with Mr Mayor, and Cromwell’s letter discusses the terms – primarily relating to land and money – in detail. Dorothy and Richard Cromwell were finally married in 1649. Colonel Richard Norton was a member of Parliament for Hants and a fellow Colonel with Cromwell in the Eastern Association. Provenance : J. Herbert Foster (his sale, Anderson Galleries, 14 March 1922, lot 46).
CROMWELL, Oliver (1599-1658). Autograph letter signed (“O Cromwell”) to Colonel Richard Norton (1615-1691), 3 April 1648. Two pages, 200 x 305mm, bifolium (laid down on paper). Cromwell writes to a family friend regarding negotiations for his son’s marriage : "I desire you to carry this business with all privacy. I beseech you to do so, as you love me. Let me entreat you not to lose a day herein, that I may know Mr. Mayor's mind." Cromwell hoped his eldest son Richard would marry Dorothy, the daughter of Richard Mayor of Hursley in Hampshire. It was a telling choice: “Had Oliver at this time cherished the bold schemes for dominion which his enemies impute to him, he would never have sought this obscure alliance with the daughter of a country gentleman” (Church, Oliver Cromwell , 294). Lengthy negotiations ensued with Mr Mayor, and Cromwell’s letter discusses the terms – primarily relating to land and money – in detail. Dorothy and Richard Cromwell were finally married in 1649. Colonel Richard Norton was a member of Parliament for Hants and a fellow Colonel with Cromwell in the Eastern Association. Provenance : J. Herbert Foster (his sale, Anderson Galleries, 14 March 1922, lot 46).
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