Paternal Family Tree: Winnington
On 7th November 1634 Francis Winnington was born to John Winnington of Chester.
In 1656 Francis Winnington [aged 21] was admitted to the Middle Temple. He was called to the bar in 1660.
Before 28th August 1666 Francis Winnington [aged 31] and Elizabeth Salwey were married. They had four sons and three daughters
On 28th August 1666 [his son] Salwey Winnington was born to Francis Winnington [aged 31] and [his wife] Elizabeth Salwey. He married 1690 Anne Foley and had issue.
On 8th October 1669 [his son] Edward Winnington aka Jeffreys was born to Francis Winnington [aged 34] and [his wife] Elizabeth Salwey. He married September 1709 Jane Bloom.
In 1675 Francis Winnington [aged 40] was appointed Solicitor General.
Before 1676 Francis Winnington [aged 41] and Elizabeth Herbert of Powick were married. They had one daughter.
In 1676 [his son-in-law] Richard Dowdeswell of Pull Court, Bushley, Worcestershire [aged 23] and [his daughter] Elizabeth Winnington were married.
On 19th February 1677 Francis Winnington [aged 42] was elected MP New Windsor.
In March 1679 and October 1679 Francis Winnington [aged 44] was elected MP Worcester.
John Evelyn's Diary. 30th November 1680. The signal day begun the trial (at which I was present) of my Lord Viscount Stafford [aged 66], (for conspiring the death of the King [aged 50], second son to my Lord Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Earl Marshal of England, and grandfather to the present Duke of Norfolk [aged 52], whom I so well knew, and from which excellent person I received so many favors. It was likewise his birthday, The trial was in Westminster Hall [Map], before the King, Lords, and Commons, just in the same manner as, forty years past, the great and wise Earl of Strafford (there being but one letter differing their names) received his trial for pretended ill government in Ireland, in the very same place, this Lord Stafford's father being then High Steward. The place of sitting was now exalted some considerable height from the paved floor of the hall, with a stage of boards. The throne, woolsacks for the Judges, long forms for the Peers, chair for the Lord Steward, exactly ranged, as in the House of Lords. The sides on both hands scaffolded to the very roof for the members of the House of Commons. At the upper end, and on the right side of the King's state, was a box for his Majesty, and on the left others for the great ladies, and over head a gallery for ambassadors and public ministers. At the lower end, or entrance, was a bar, and place for the prisoner, the Lieutenant of the Tower of London, the ax-bearer and guards, my Lord Stafford's two daughters, the Marchioness of Winchester being one; there was likewise a box for my Lord to retire into. At the right hand, in another box, somewhat higher, stood the witnesses; at the left, the managers, in the name of the Commons of England, namely, Serjeant Maynard [aged 76] (the great lawyer, the same who prosecuted the cause against the Earl of Strafford forty years before, being now near eighty years of age), Sir William Jones [aged 49], late Attorney-General, Sir Francis Winnington [aged 46], a famous pleader, and Mr. Treby, now Recorder of London, not appearing in their gowns as lawyers, but in their cloaks and swords, as representing the Commons of England: to these were joined Mr. Hampden, Dr. Sacheverell, Mr. Poule, Colonel Titus [aged 57], Sir Thomas Lee [aged 45], all gentlemen of quality, and noted parliamentary men. The first two days, in which were read the commission and impeachment, were but a tedious entrance into matter of fact, at which I was but little present. But, on Thursday, I was commodiously seated among the Commons, when the witnesses were sworn and examined. The principal witnesses were Mr. Oates [aged 31] (who called himself Dr.), Mr. Dugdale [aged 40], and Turberville [aged 32]. Oates swore that he delivered a commission to Viscount Stafford from the Pope, to be Paymaster-General to an army intended to be raised; Dugdale, that being at Lord Aston's, the prisoner dealt with him plainly to murder his Majesty; and Turberville, that at Paris he also proposed the same to him.
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In 1681 Francis Winnington [aged 46] was elected MP Worcester.
In 1690 Salwey Winnington [aged 23] and Anne Foley were married. They had one son and five daughters.
On 14th November 1692 Francis Winnington [aged 58] was elected MP Tewkesbury.
In 1695 Francis Winnington [aged 60] was elected MP Tewkesbury.
On 1st May 1700 Francis Winnington [aged 65] died.
[his daughter] Elizabeth Winnington was born to Francis Winnington and Elizabeth Herbert of Powick. She married 1676 Richard Dowdeswell of Pull Court, Bushley, Worcestershire.
[his son] Francis Winnington was born to Francis Winnington and Elizabeth Salwey.