Arthur Mainwaring Arthur Mainwaring Sir Arthur Mainwaring (c. 1580 – 1648) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1624 to 1626. Mainwaring was the eldest son of Sir George Mainwaring of Ightfield, Shropshire and Ann More, daughter of William More. He was awarded BA from Brasenose College, Oxford on 7 July 1598 and MA on 15 June 1601. He began a rise to prominence working for Sir Thomas Egerton, in whose household he was steward from 1602 to 1617. John Payne Collier published records by Mainwaring relating to a performance of "Othello" for Queen Elizabeth at this
Henry Mainwaring on 1 August 1614, reduced the town. Mainwaring's relations with the Moors were such that he was able to secure the release of their English prisoners. So feared was his pirate fleet that Spain offered Mainwaring a pardon and high command in return for his services under the Spanish flag. When his pirate activities almost broke the tenuous peace between England, Spain and Portugal, King James I threatened to send a fleet after Mainwaring, to whom he later granted a royal pardon in 1616 for having saved the Newfoundland trading fleet near Gibraltar. Mainwaring wrote a book on piracy ("Discourse