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He was born in 1645 and was the eldest son of Sir William Fenwick, or Fenwicke, who was a member of an old Northumberland family.
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A full answer paragraph by paragraph, to Sir John Fenwick's paper given to the sheriffs, January the 28th, 1696/7 at the place of execution on ... of England, as establish'd by law. (1697)
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John Fenwick
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He entered the army, becoming major-general in 1688. He was a strong partisan of King James II, and in 1685 was one of the principal supporters of the act of attainder against the duke of Monmouth; but he remained in England when William III ascended the throne three years later. He began at once to plot against the new king, for which he underwent a short imprisonment in 1689. Renewing his plots on his release, he publicly insulted Queen Mary in 1691, and it is practically certain that he was implicated in the schemes for assassinating William which came to light in 1695 and 1696. After the seizure of his fellow-conspirators, Robert Charnock and others, he remained in hiding until the imprudent conduct of his friends in attempting to induce one of the witnesses against him to leave the country led to his arrest in June in 1696. To save himself he offered to reveal all he knew about the Jacobite conspiracies; but his confession was a farce, being confined to charges against some of the leading Whig noblemen, which were damaging, but not conclusive. By this time his friends had succeeded in removing one of the two witnesses, and in these circumstances it was thought that the charge of treason must fail. The government, however, overcame this difficulty by introducing a bill of attainder, which after a long and acrimonious discussion passed through both Houses of Parliament. His wife persevered in her attempts to save his life, but her efforts were fruitless, and Fenwick was beheaded in London on the 28th of January 1697, with the same formalities as were usually observed at the execution of a peer.
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The Proceedings Against Sir John Fenwick, Bar. Upon a Bill of Attainder for High Treason: Together with a Copy of a Letter Sent by Sir John Fenwick to
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A full answer paragraph by paragraph, to Sir John Fenwick's paper given to the sheriffs, January the 28th, 1696/7 at the place of execution on ... of England, as establish'd by law. (1697)
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The Proceedings Against Sir John Fenwick, Bar. Upon a Bill of Attainder for High Treason: Together with a Copy of a Letter Sent by Sir John Fenwick to
Politics
To save himself he offered to reveal all he knew about the Jacobite conspiracies; but his confession was a farce, being confined to charges against some of the leading Whig noblemen, which were damaging, but not conclusive.
Membership
He was a members of parliament for Northumberland, which county he represented from 1677 to 1687.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Macaulay says that "of all the Jacobites, the most desperate characters not excepted, he (Fenwick) was the only one for whom William felt an intense personal aversion ".
Connections
With his wife, Mary, daughter of Charles Howard, ist earl of Carlisle, he had three sons and one daughter, but all of them died young.
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Political Party
Whig