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English: Sir 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
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