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WINDEBANK, SIR FRANCIS (1582-1646)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 708 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WINDEBANK, See also:SIR See also:FRANCIS (1582-1646) , See also:English secretary of See also:state, was the only son of Sir See also:Thomas Windebank of Hougham, Lincs., who owed his See also:advancement to the See also:Cecil See also:family. Francis entered St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Oxford, in 1599, coming there under the See also:influence of See also:Laud. After a few years' See also:continental travel (i6o5-1608), he was employed for many years in See also:minor public offices, and became clerk of the See also:council. In See also:June 1632 he was appointed by See also:Charles I. secretary of state in See also:succession to See also:Lord See also:Dorchester, his See also:senior colleague being Sir John See also:Coke, and he was knighted. His See also:appointment was mainly due to his See also:Spanish and See also:Roman See also:Catholic sympathies. The first See also:earl of See also:Portland, Francis, Lord See also:Cottington, and Windebank formed an inner See also:group in the council, and with their aid the See also:king carried on various See also:secret negotiations, especially with See also:Spain. In See also:December 1634 Windebank was appointed to discuss with the papal See also:agent Gregorio Panzani the possibility of a See also:union between the See also:Anglican and Roman Churches, and expressed the See also:opinion that the Puritan opposition might be crippled by sending their leaders to the See also:war in the See also:Netherlands. Windebank's efforts as See also:treasury See also:commissioner in 1635 to See also:shield some of those guilty of corruption led to a See also:breach with See also:Archbishop Laud, and the next See also:year he was for a See also:time disgraced for issuing an See also:order for the See also:conveyance of Spanish See also:money to pay the Spanish troops in the Netherlands. In See also:July 1638 he urged upon the king instant war with the Scots, and in 1640, when tumults were breaking out in See also:England, he sent an See also:appeal from the See also:queen to the See also:pope for m9ney and men. He was elected in See also:March 1640 member of the See also:Short See also:Parliament for Oxford University, and he entered the See also:Long Parliament in See also:October as member for Corfe. In December the See also:House learnt that he had signed letters of See also:grace to See also:recusant priests and See also:Jesuits, and summoned him to See also:answer the See also:charge, but with the king's connivance he fled to See also:France. From See also:Calais he wrote to the first Lord See also:Hatton, defending his integrity, and affirming his belief that the See also:church of England was the purest and nearest the See also:primitive Church.

He remained in See also:

Paris until his See also:death on the 1st of See also:September 1646, shortly after he had been received into the Roman communion.

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