biography
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| lived:
| (1584–1654)
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| biography:
| Historian and antiquary, born in Salvington, West Sussex, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford and London, became a lawyer (1612), entered parliament in 1623, and in 1628 helped to draw up the Petition of Rights, for which he was imprisoned until 1634. He entered the Long Parliament in 1640, but after the execution of Charles I he took little part in public matters. His best-known book, Table Talk, was published after his death (1689). |
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