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1ST VISCOUNT WILLIAM FIENNES SAYE AND...

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VISCOUNT See also:WILLIAM See also:FIENNES SAYE AND SELE (1582-1662)  , was the only son of See also:Richard See also:Fiennes, 7th See also:Baron Saye and Sele, and was descended from See also:James Fiennes, See also:Lord Saye and Sele, who was lord See also:chamberlain and lord treasurer under See also:Henry VI. and was beheaded by the rebels under See also:Jack See also:Cade on the 4th of See also:July 1450 . See also:Born on the 28th of May 1582 Fiennes, like many of his See also:family, was educated at New See also:College, See also:Oxford; he succeeded to his See also:father's See also:barony in 1613, and in See also:parliament opposed the policy of James I., undergoing a brief imprisonment for objecting to a benevolence in 1662; and he showed See also:great animus towards Lord See also:Bacon . In 1624, owing probably to his temporary friend-See also:ship with the See also:duke of See also:Buckingham, he was advanced to the See also:rank of a See also:viscount, but notwithstanding this he remained during the See also:early parliaments of See also:Charles I. See also:champion of the popular cause, and was in See also:Clarendon's words " the See also:oracle of those who were called Puritans in the worst sense, and steered all their counsels and designs." Afterwards his energies found a new outlet in helping to colonize See also:Providence See also:Island, and in interesting himself in other and similar enterprises in See also:America . Although Saye resisted the See also:levy of ship-See also:money, he accompanied Charles on his See also:march against the Scots in 1639; but, with only one other peer, he refused to take the See also:oath binding him to fight for the See also:king to " the utmost of my See also:power and See also:hazard of my See also:life." Then Charles I. sought to win his favour by making him a privy councillor and See also:master of the See also:court of wards . When the See also:Civil See also:War See also:broke out, however, Saye was on the See also:committee of safety, was made lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Gloucestershire, See also:Oxfordshire and See also:Cheshire, and raising a See also:regiment occupied Oxford . He was a member of the committee of both kingdoms; was mainly responsible for passing the self-denying See also:ordinance through the See also:House of Lords; and in 1647 stood up for the See also:army in its struggle with the parliament . In 1648, both at the treaty of See also:Newport and elsewhere, Saye was anxious that Charles should come to terms, and he retired into private life after the See also:execution of the king, becoming a privy councillor again upon the restoration of Charles II . He died at his See also:residence, See also:Broughton See also:Castle near See also:Banbury, on the 14th of See also:April 1662 . On several occasions Saye outwitted the advisers of Charles I. by his strict compliance with legal forms: He was a thorough aristocrat, and his ideas for the See also:government of colonies in America included the See also:establishment of an hereditary See also:aristocracy . His eldest son James (c . 1603–1674) succeeded him as 2nd viscount; other sons were the parliamentarians Nathaniel Fiennes (q.v.) and See also:John Fiennes . The viscounty of Saye and Sele became See also:extinct in 1781, and the barony is now held by the descendants of John Twisleton (d .

1682) and his wife See also:

Elizabeth (d . 1674), a daughter of the 2nd viscount . See also:Saybrook (q.v.) in See also:Connecticut is named after Viscount Saye and Lord See also:Brooke .

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