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PAUL WENTWORTH (1533-1593)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 521 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL See also:WENTWORTH (1533-1593) , a prominent member of See also:parliament in the reign of See also:Elizabeth, was a member of the Lillingstone See also:Lovell See also:branch of the See also:family (see above). His See also:father See also:Sir See also:Nicholas Wentworth (d. 1557) was See also:chief See also:porter of See also:Calais. Paul Wentworth was of puritan sympathies, and he first came into See also:notice by the freedom with which in 1566 he criticized Elizabeth's See also:prohibition of discussion in parliament on the question of her successor. Paul, who was probably the author of the famous puritan devotional See also:book The Miscellanie, or Regestrie and Methodicall Directorie of Orizons (See also:London, 1615), died in 1593. He became possessed of Burnham See also:Abbey through his wife, to whose first See also:husband, See also:William See also:Tyldesley, it had been granted at the See also:dissolution of the monasteries by See also:Henry VIII.

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