Sir William Hevingham

High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1633 and Member of Parliament from 1640, and during the Civil War 1642-51. Commissioner of the court that in 1649 tried Charles I, but he was one of those who refused to sign the execution warrant. After the Restoration in 1660, he was found guilty of treason but successfully petitioned for mercy and was imprisoned in Windsor Castle in 1664 until his death in 1678, but his property was attainted.