3 February 1621PeerageFrancis Bacon Verulam, 1st
Created Viscount St Alban
Historical records for England in 1621, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Created Viscount St Alban
Parliament fines Bacon & declares him incapable of holding office
Parliament fines Bacon & declares him incapable of holding office
Asked by Parliament to defend German Protestants
Asked by Parliament to find a Protestant wife for the Prince of Wales
Tells Parliament "not to meddle with anything concerning Government"
Tells Parliament "not to meddle with anything concerning Government"
Tears out the Parliaments protestations from the Commons journal
Birth of Anthony Ashley-Cooper
Claims the right to punish any Member of Parliament who commits a "misdemeanor"
Fulke Greville receives the peerage title Baron Brooke.
Death of Robert Tounson
Wentworth supported a cautious foreign policy and opposed costly continental warfare.
Appointed Lord Chancellor
Appointed Master of the Robes to the Prince of Wales
Elected Member of Parliament for Ludlow
Opens Parliament for the 1st time in 6 yrs
Rebuked by Parliament, had ordered MPs not to "meddle" in affairs of State. Claims the right to punish any Member of Parliament who commits a "misdemeanor"
Opens Parliament to fund a war in Europe but it makes a grant to the Protestants
Created Baron Brooke, 1st
Wentworth returned to Parliament as one of Yorkshire's knights of the shire.
Confesses to bribery in chancery suits, fined 40,000 pounds, later remitted by the King
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