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

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