THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VIII. TO THE PRESENT TIME. A New Edition, RE-ARRANGED, AND ENRICHED WITH SEVERAL ADDITIONAL LIVES, BY THE REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M.A. F.R.S. OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, LUDGATE STREET; AND FOR THE BRITISH PLUTARCH. SIR THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF STRAFFORD.* [1593-1641.] THOMAS WENTWORTH was the eldest son of Sir William Wentworth, Baronet, † and of Anne daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Atkins, of Stowell in the county of Gloucester, Knight. He was born in London, April 13, 1593; and received his academical education at St. John's College, Cambridge, where by his great application he made considerable progress in learning. On quitting the University, to which however he continued friendly through life, he travelled abroad for farther accom * AUTHORITIES. Guthrie's History of England, Parliamentary Debates, and Macdiarmid's Lives of British Statesmen. † Whose manor of Wentworth, in Yorkshire, was the residence of his ancestors before the Conquest. He had twelve children. Having occasion to represent some misconduct of a church |