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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 819 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EARL OF See also:GEORGE See also:GORING See also:NORWICH (1583?-1663)  , See also:English soldier, was the son of See also:George See also:Goring of Hurstpierpoint and Ovingdean, See also:Sussex, and of See also:Anne Denny, See also:sister of See also:Edward Denny, See also:earl of See also:Norwich . He was knighted in '16o8, and became a favourite at See also:court, benefiting largely from monopolies granted by See also:Charles I . He became See also:Baron Goring in 1628, and privy councillor in 1639 . When the troubles between Charles and his See also:parliament became acute Goring devoted his See also:fortune freely to the royal cause; and the See also:king in See also:November 1644 renewed for him the See also:title of earl of Norwich which had become See also:extinct at his See also:uncle's See also:death . He went with the See also:queen to See also:Holland in 1642 to raise See also:money for the king, and in the autumn of the next See also:year he was seeking arms and money from See also:Mazarin in See also:Paris . His proceedings were revealed to the parliament in See also:January 1644 by an intercepted See also:letter to Henrietta Maria . He was consequently impeached of high See also:treason, and prudently remained abroad until 1647 when he received a pass from the parliament under a pretext of seeking reconciliation . Thus he was able to take a prominent See also:part in the Second See also:Civil See also:War of 1648 (see See also:GREAT See also:REBELLION) . He commanded the Kentish levies, which See also:Fairfax dispersed at See also:Maidstone and elsewhere, and was forced to surrender unconditionally at See also:Colchester . He was condemned to See also:exile in November 1648 by a See also:vote of the See also:House of See also:Commons, but in the next See also:month the vote was annulled . See also:Early in the next year a court was formed under See also:Bradshaw to try Norwich and four others . All five were condemned to death on the 6th of See also:March, but petitions for See also:mercy were presented to parliament, and Norwich's See also:life was spared by the See also:Speaker's casting vote .

Shortly after his liberation from See also:

prison in May he joined the exiled court of Charles II., by whom he was employed in fruitless negotiations with the See also:duke of See also:Lorraine . He became See also:captain of the king's guard at the Restoration, and in See also:consideration of the fortune he had expended in the king's service a See also:pension of 2000 a year was granted him . He died at See also:Brentford on the 6th of January 1663 . By his wife See also:Mary Nevill (d . 1648), daughter of the 6th See also:Lord See also:Abergavenny, he had four daughters and two sons: George, Lord Goring (q.v.); and Charles, who fought 2.58 million sq. km . 1.79 1.65 I.05 0.30 4.12 million cubic km . 1600 metres . in the Civil War, succeeded his See also:father in the earldom, and died without heirs in March 1671 .

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