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SIR JOHN COVENTRY (d. 1682)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 340 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR JOHN COVENTRY (d. 1682)  , son of John Coventry, the second son of Thomas, Lord Keeper Coventry, was returned to the Long Parliament in 164o as member for
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Evesham . During the
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Civil War he served for the king, and at the Restoration was created a knight . In 1667, and in the following parliaments of 1678, 1679 and 1681, he was elected for
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Weymouth, and opposed the government . On the 21st of December 1670, owing to a jest made by Coventry in the House of
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Commons on the subject of the king's amours,
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Sir Thomas Sandys, an officer of the guards, with other accomplices, by the order of Monmouth, and (it was said) with the approval of. the king himself, waylaid him as he was returning home to Suffolk Street and slit his nose to the bone . The outrage created an extraordinary sensation, and in consequence a measure known as the " Coventry Act " was passed, declaring assaults accompanied by
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personal mutilation a felony without benefit of clergy . Sir John died in 1682 .

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