William Wentworth

AW probably acquired that name at this date, when she married William Wentworth , a Londoner who may have been (like Shakespeare 's father) in the glove trade.

Anne Wentworth was back, she said, in the marital home which her husband, William , had turned her out of. They each lived somewhere else for a time, while William sublet the house in Kingshead...

AW 's husband put her out of the house again, not allowing her to take any furniture, any bed, bedding, or stool to sit on; but a year later he allowed her back again.

Again, AW comes straight to the point: her persecutions at the hands of her hard-hearted Yoak-Fellow and of eminent Baptists are, she says, well known to Christians and even to her enemies around the city...

She is well into her pamphlet before she comes to her nearest relation, her husband . He was an Anabaptist, she says, before they were married, and a moral honest, and just-dealing man, but he...