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Sir Peter Wentworth (1529–1596) was a prominent Puritan leader in the Parliament of England. He was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth and entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He later sat for the Cornish borough of Tregony in 1578 and for the town of Northampton in the parliaments of 1586–7, 1589, and 1593.
Peter Wentworth (born 1524–30—died Nov. 10, 1596, London) was a prominent Puritan member of the English Parliament in the reign of Elizabeth I, whom he challenged on questions of religion and the succession.
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For example, the Puritan MP, Peter Wentworth was imprisoned on several occasions for raising the issues of freedom of speech, religion and the succession, eventually dying in the Tower of...
A transcript of a parliamentary debate in 1566 over the queen’s command to silence the House on the succession issue. Peter Wentworth, a member of Parliament, challenged the queen’s authority and asserted the freedom of speech of the House.
Jun 27, 2024 · Peter Wentworth was probably present at Boulogne in 1544 when his father Nicholas was knighted by Henry VIII and these court connections help to explain his own first marriage to a cousin of Queen Katherine Parr.
Peter Wentworth was a radical Protestant who sat in Parliament for Northamptonshire from 1586 to 1593. He was related to the Seymours, the Walsinghams and the Sidneys, and opposed the prerogative and the episcopacy.
The same point was made more fulsomely by Peter Wentworth in his famous appeal for freedom of speech in 1576. His attack upon ‘rumours and messages’ was interrupted in mid-flow and he was committed to the Tower by order of the House, the majority of Members having been appalled by his outspoken criticism of the queen.
