[2] Tufton represented Peterborough in 1601,[3][4] presumably through the influence of his father-in-law Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter.
[5] Traveling north to welcome the new king to England, he was knighted by James I at Newcastle on 13 April 1603.
[3] For the latter honour he paid £15,000 to the Exchequer and possibly a further £5,000 to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
[8] He died in at Sapcote, Leicestershire on 1 July 1631 and was buried at his request at Rainham, Kent.
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