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SIR PHILIP WARWICK (1609-1683)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 339 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:PHILIP See also:WARWICK (1609-1683)  , See also:English writer and politician, was the son of See also:Thomas See also:Warwick, or Warrick, a musician, and was See also:born in See also:Westminster on the 24th of See also:December 1609 . Educated at See also:Eton, he travelled abroad for some See also:time and in 1636 became secretary to the See also:lord high treasurer, See also:William See also:Juxon; later be was a member of the See also:Long See also:Parliament, being one of those who voted against the See also:attainder of See also:Strafford and who followed See also:Charles I. to See also:Oxford . He fought at Edgehill and was one of the See also:king's secretaries during the negotiations with the parliament at See also:Hampton See also:Court, and also during those at See also:Newport, Charles speaking very highly of his services just before his See also:execution . Remaining in See also:England, Warwick was passively loyal to Charles II. during the See also:Commonwealth and enjoyed the confidence of the royalist leaders . In ,66o the king made him a See also:knight, and in 1661 he became a member of parliament and secretary to another lord treasurer, Thomas Wriothesley, See also:earl of See also:Southampton, retaining this See also:post until the See also:treasury was put into See also:commission on Southampton's See also:death in May 1667 . He died on the 15th of See also:January 1683 . Warwick's only son, the younger See also:Philip Warwick (d . 1683), was See also:envoy to See also:Sweden in 1680 . Warwick is chiefly known for his See also:Memoirs of the reigne of King Charles I., with a continuation to the happy restauration of King Charles II., written between 1675 and 1677 and published in See also:London in 1701 .

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