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Jane Whorwood
Jane Whorwood, "née" Ryder (1612 – September 1684) was a Royalist agent during the English Civil War. She managed circulation of intelligence, as well as smuggling of funds to sustain the Royalist faction. Whorwood was a close confidante of King Charles I, having helped to co-ordinate his attempts to escape captivity in the late 1640s.
Personal life.
Whorwood was born in Westminster, in 1612. Her father was Scots courtier William Ryder, surveyor of the royal stables, and her
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• Fox, John (2010). "The King’s Smuggler : Whorwood Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I" [Kindle version]. Gloucestershire: The History Press.
• Poynting, Sarah (2006). Deciphering the King: Charles I's Letters to Jane Whorwood. "The Seventeenth Century", 21 (1), 128–40.
External links.
• Profile on Jane Whorwood at HerStoria.com, by John Fox.
• Same author on Jane Whorwood: The King