In this House, which is termed a place of free speech, there is nothing so necessary for the preservation of the Prince and State as free speech.
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| Birth: | 1529 |
| Death: | 1596 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Politician |
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Peter Wentworth was a prominent Puritan leader in the Parliament of England. He was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth, and first entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He later sat for the Cornish borough of Tregony in 1572, and for the town of Northampton in the parliaments of 1586–7, 1589, and 1593. Wentworth was perhaps the chief critic of Queen Elizabeth I, and Wentworth's 1576 Parliament address has been regarded as the sign of a new era in English Parliament politicking.
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