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12 de feb. de 2009 · New conditions meant an age of distress and turbulence, and new opportunities meant the rise of strong, vigorous personalities who were left without authoritative guidance to work out their country's salvation. Of such were Henry VII and his council of the “ablest men that were to be found”.
25 de may. de 2006 · Although Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley were executed in 1510 in part for their rabid prosecution of written bonds, their activities at the time were only quietly recognized as part of a royal policy encouraged by Henry VII (1485–1509). Yet there has been little investigation into how these ministers went about mulcting the populace, beyond the vituperative reports of the London chronicles ...
Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII, was a man both personally extraordinary and yet representative of his age. He abandoned the normal cursus honorum of the legal profession to enter the king's service more suddenly than any of his contemporaries; yet he was one of many common lawyers newly influential in the king's councils of the later fifteenth and earlier sixteenth centuries. He was ...
Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley would both earn themselves the reputation as Henry VII’s hatchet men – which is fair enough; but in addition they would be characterised by Polydore Vergil and others to characterize as extortioners. This is both fair and unfair; on the one hand, even Dudley himself ended up confessing a long list of individuals he had wronged. On the other hand, all they ...
Dudley came of Sussex gentry stock and studied law. His first wife was a sister of Andrews, later Lord Windsor, and his second the daughter of Lord Lisle. ...
T HE petition of Edmund Dudley survives in the form of a sixteenth- century copy. It was discovered in a box of unlisted material of Plas Newydd Papers.' This introduction and the notes to the items in Dudley's list are intended to provide sufficient comment and in- formation to make this edition of the document of use to both the general academic reader and the specialist. The introduction is ...
EDMUND DUDLEY. BORN: c. 1462. EXECUTED: 17 AUGUST 1510. Edmund Dudley, along with King Henry VII and Richard Empson. The Duke of Rutland. Father of John Dudley, grandfather of Robert, Ambrose, Guildford, etc. Was a minister of Henry VII, where he became unpopular and was impeached and executed early in Henry VIII 's reign.
