PAUL WENTWORTH (1533-1593)

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PAUL WENTWORTH (1533-1593) , a prominent member of

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

in the reign of Elizabeth, was a member of the Lillingstone Lovell branch of the family (see above). His father Sir Nicholas Wentworth (d. 1557) was

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

porter

PORTER
PORTER, BENJAMIN
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- CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM (1824-1892)
(1843– )
PORTER,
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(1780-1843)
PORTER,
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  - HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
  - HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
  - HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
  - HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
  - HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
  - HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
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- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
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PORTER, NOAH (1811–1892)

of Calais. Paul Wentworth was of puritan sympathies, and he first came into notice by the freedom with which in 1566 he criticized Elizabeth's prohibition of discussion in

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

on the question of her successor. Paul, who was probably the author of the famous puritan devotional book The Miscellanie, or Regestrie and Methodicall Directorie of Orizons (London, 1615), died in 1593. He became possessed of Burnham Abbey through his wife, to whose first husband, William Tyldesley, it had been granted at the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII.

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