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Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baronet (c. 1615 - 5 Dec 1675)

Fought for the Royalists in the English Civil War and was captured at the Battle of Naseby. He was knighted for his services at the Restoration and in 1664 he became the 1st Baronet Wentworth of Bretton. In 1663 he was part of a commission tasked with investigating the Yorkshire Plot (also known as the Farnley Wood Plot) to overturn the monarchy. Relevant locations: Lived at or near Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire
 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

85. The Informations, Examinations, and Confessions concerning the Yorkeshire Plot 1663, under the Parties own Hand. This is the Original taken before Sir Tho. Osborne (afterwards Duke of Leedes) Sir Jo. Dawney (afterwards Lord Downe), Sir Jo. Goodrick, Sir Jo. Armytage, Sir Godfrey Copeley, Sir R. Mauleverer, Sir Tho. Gower, Sir Tho. Wentworth, Sir Rob. Hildyard, and other Justices who have attested the several Informations, under their own Hands. The Present of the Judges Associate.