1. Nathaniel Fiennes sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659, and served with the Parliamentarian army in the First English Civil War.
12 Facts About Nathaniel Fiennes
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Nathaniel Fiennes was born c 1608 at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, second son of William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, and Elizabeth Temple.
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Elizabeth died sometime before 1650 when Nathaniel Fiennes married again, this time to Frances Whitehead.
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Nathaniel Fiennes attended Winchester College, then entered New College, Oxford in 1619.
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Nathaniel Fiennes graduated in 1624 without a degree, but was made a perpetual fellow of the college as "founder's kin".
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Nathaniel Fiennes returned to Scotland in 1639, and established communications with the Covenanters and the Opposition in England.
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Nathaniel Fiennes addressed to Essex a letter in his defence, drew up for the parliament a Relation concerning the Surrender.
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Nathaniel Fiennes was pardoned, and the facility with which Bristol subsequently capitulated to the parliamentary army induced Cromwell and the generals to exonerate him completely.
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Nathaniel Fiennes went abroad, and it was some time before he reappeared on the political scene.
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Many of the witnesses at the trial could possibly have been politically motivated and there is some evidence Nathaniel Fiennes was the victim of a wider political campaign against his family's political faction.
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Nathaniel Fiennes was in favour of the Protector's assumption of the royal title and urged his acceptance of it on several occasions.
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Nathaniel Fiennes lived at No 1 Great Piazza, Covent Garden from 1657 to 1659.