Entries for the tag ‘Wortley, Francis (1591-1652)’
1st Baronet (1611), poet and politician, sat in the House of Commons 1624-26, supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War
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- 19 August 1728: An elderly gamekeeper at Pilley recalls the extrajudicial execution of a Dodworth man on the orders of young Sir Francis Wortley during the Civil War
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