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Elizabeth Tunstall

Elizabeth Tunstall

Elizabeth Tunstall is the author of The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603. She is a Tudor historian at the University of Adelaide in Australia.

The Wentworth brothers campaigned ceaselessly for the liberty of free speech in the House of Commons. They were driven by the ongoing succession crisis, which they felt Elizabeth was ignoring, placing England in danger of civil war or foreign invasion.

The Brothers Who Asserted Their Right to Free Speech in Tudor England

Peter and Paul Wentworth called on Elizabeth I to name an heir to the throne, wielding Parliament’s free speech privileges to urge the queen to take action