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PETER WENTWORTH (1530-1596)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 521 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER See also:WENTWORTH (1530-1596) was the See also:elder See also:brother of the above-mentioned See also:Paul, and like his brother was a prominent puritan See also:leader in See also:parliament, which he first entered as member for See also:Barnstaple in 1571. He took a See also:firm attitude in support of the liberties of parliament against encroachments of the royal See also:prerogative, on which subject he delivered a memorable speech on the 8th of See also:February 1576, for which after examination by the See also:Star Chamber he was committed to the See also:Tower. In February 1587 See also:Sir See also:Anthony See also:Cope (1548-1614) presented to the See also:Speaker a See also:bill abrogating the existing ecclesiastical See also:law, together with a puritan revision of the See also:Prayer See also:Book, and Wentworth supported him by bringing forward certain articles touching the liberties of the See also:House of See also:Commons; Cope and Wentworth were both committed to the Tower for interference with the See also:queen's ecclesiastical prerogative. In 1593 Wentworth again suffered imprisonment for presenting a See also:petition on the subject of the See also:succession to the See also:Crown; and it is probable that he did not regain his freedom, for he died in the Tower on the loth of See also:November 1596. While in the Tower he wrote A Pithie Exhortation to her See also:Majesty for establishing her Successor to the Crown, a famous See also:treatise preserved in the See also:British Museum. Peter Wentworth was twice married; his first wife, by whom he had no See also:children, was a See also:cousin of See also:Catherine See also:Parr, and his second a See also:sister of Sir See also:Francis See also:Walsingham, See also:Elizabeth's secretary of See also:state. His third son, See also:Thomas Wentworth (c. 1568-1623), was an ardent and some-times a violent opponent of royal prerogative in parliament, of which he became a member in 1604, continuing to represent the See also:city of See also:Oxford from that See also:year until his See also:death. He was called to the See also:bar in 1594 and became See also:recorder of Oxford in 1607. Another son, See also:Walter Wentworth, was also a member of parliament.

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