Cromwell’s clemency plea to fetch £1,000

Siblings Kate, Hannah, Hayley, Emilie and Jade were born to psychiatric nurses Jacqui, 59, and Alan Chedzoy, 60.

The couple met during their medical placements at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Somerset, as part of their nursing training in 1978.

A couple of years later, Jacqui found out she was pregnant with Kate while she was working on the maternity ward.

The hospital has become like a second home to them. All five daughters, and all 14 grandchildren, were born there.

Only Emilie, 32, has not gone on to work at Musgrove Park, but still works for NHS England, as a neonatal screening administrator.

Sister Kate Warren, 37, works as a neonatal intensive care nurse at the hospital, and is mum to Jack, eight, A PETITION signed by Oliver Cromwell which saved an indebted war widow from prison is expected to fetch £1,000 at auction.

The 17th century document was to help Joan Head when she was arrested after her soldier husband was wounded in battle and she could not pay the £3 hospital bill to the surgeons who tried to save him.

The petition was signed when Cromwell was still an MP.

Cromwell, who died from malaria in 1658, is remembered as a tyrannical leader who during the conquest of Ireland in September, 1649, massacred the town of Drogheda, killing nearly 3,000 people over a period of eight days.

The document is being sold at Brightwell’s auctioneer’s fine art sale in Leominster, Herefordshire on November 13 and 14.

Roger Brookes, of Brightwell’s, said: “Cromwell has written ‘Release Mrs Head’ above his signature, an act of clemency not associated with his character.” ,