the primitive Church. He remained in Paris until his death, shortly after he had been received into the Roman communion. Family Windebank married and had a large family. William Laud referred in 1630 to his "many sons". He had five at least, and four survived him: Thomas (born c. 1612), was M.P. for Wootton Bassett and supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was made a baronet in 1645. He was Clerk of the Signet from 1641 until 1645 and again (after the Interregnum) from 1660 to 1674. Francis (died 1645), supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. He was court-martialled and shot for failing to defend Bletchingdon House, near Oxford. Christopher (born 1615), was an Englishman who lived in Madrid and worked as guide and interpreter for English ambassadors. — John (1618–1704), a physician who was admitted an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Of Windebank's daughters: Margaret married Thomas Turner (1591–1672), and was mother of Thomas Turner (1645–1714), president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and of Francis Turner, bishop of Ely, one of the seven Bishops who, refusing to accept James II's Declaration of Indulgence, were imprisoned in the Tower of London. Frances married Sir Edward Hales on 12 July 1669. One other died unmarried at Paris about 1650. Two others became nuns of the Calvary at the Église Sainte-Marie-des-Anges, Paris. Notes References Attribution 1582 births 1646 deaths Secretaries of State of the Kingdom of England Alumni of St John's College, Oxford People from Westminster People from Hurst, Berkshire People from Lincolnshire English MPs 1640 (April) English MPs 1640–1648 Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of England for the University of Oxford Lords of the Admiralty