William Stafford (1593–1684), was born in
Norfolk
Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...
, England and was an English landowner. He was the son of the conspirator
William Stafford and his wife Anne Gryme.
Biography
He was the author of ''The Reason of the War, with the Progress and Accidents Thereof, Written by an English Subject'' which was published in 1646, which argued for
Charles I Charles I may refer to:
Kings and emperors
* Charlemagne (742–814), numbered Charles I in the lists of Holy Roman Emperors and French kings
* Charles I of Anjou (1226–1285), also king of Albania, Jerusalem, Naples and Sicily
* Charles I of ...
to give more power to Parliament.
The Jacobite pamphleteer
Richard Stafford was his grandson.
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1593 births
1684 deaths
17th-century English writers
17th-century English male writers
English political writers
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