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| Keywords: SirFrancisWortley.jpg Francis Wortley 1st Baronet 1591 “1652 poet who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War In 1610 Wortley was a commoner of Magdalen College Oxford He was created a baronet in 1611 He was Member of Parliament for East Retford in the 1624 and the 1625 Parliaments He supported Charles II in the Siege of Hull 1642 He was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1644 to 1648 While in prison he published Characters and Elegies in 1646 and some other works He was a friend of Ben Jonson and contributed to Jonsonus Virbius in 1638 http //www picturethepast org uk/frontend php id 63850 pos 521 action zoomHistory keywords NTGM012405 continueUrl ZnJvbnRlbmQucGhwPyZhY3Rpb249aGlzdG9yeSZzdWJtaXQ9MSZwYWdlPTY2 Author 1652 1652 deaths Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom House of Commons PD-old-100 | ||||
