Identifier: collectionsforhi03staf_6 (find matches)
Title: Collections for a history of Staffordshire
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Staffordshire Record Society
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Publisher: Birmingham, Eng. : Houghton and Hammond
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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gh Egerton,5 Richard 1 Pollard, Reign of Henry VII, says about February. 2 Pari. 1450-1. 3 Sir Hugh Peshale of Horsley, possibly M.P. Staffs1485-6 or 1487-8. Born c. 1425 ; son of Nicholas P. (and grandsonof Sir Thomas P. of the same), by Helen, daughter of Hugh de Malpas.He married Julian Corbet. Knighted on Bosworth field 25 August1485 (Shaw, Knights) ; he was J.P. September 1485-9, and sheriff1488-9 ; dying during his term of office (Harwood, Erdeswick 129),in 1489, being succeeded by his son Humphrey (Pari. 1497). His Will,dated 15 February 1489, proved in P.C.C. 12 September 1489, is remark-able because he calls Sir Humphrey Stanley brother. He makesbequests to two bastard daughters and to two natural daughterswhom he entrusts to the custody of his wife Isabel (not Julian). Residueto Isabel and she sole Executrix. Overseers :—Sir Humphrey Stanley my brother, Nicholas Agard and William Wynnesbury. There isno mention at all of his son Humphrey. 4 Pari. 1483 (1). 5 Pari. 1483 (1).
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HENRY VII. 273 Wrottesley,1 William Harpur,2 William Wilkes3 and JohnBlount.4 From among these the county M.P.s may well havebeen chosen. The Stanleys, Peshale, Egerton and Blount hadbeen added to the Bench by Henry VII, that is, by the Stanleys,then all-powerful in Staffordshire.5 Sometime indeed afterthe dissolution, on 17 November i486, a Commission toenquire into escheated estates was appointed :—Sir HumphreyStanley, Ralph Wolseley, William Harpur and the sheriff ;6so we might perhaps add Wolseley to the list of possiblecandidates. Parliament of 1487-8. Summoned, by Writs of 1 September, to meet 9 November1487; dissolution unknown, but after November 1488,7according to Mr. Pink. This Parliament instituted the Courtof the Star Chamber. No returns have been found exceptfor the above-named Boroughs. The Staffordshire sheriff whomade the returns was probably Sir Henry Willoughby of 1 Pari. 1497. 2 Pari. 1483 (1). 3 Pari. 1484. 4 John Blount of Burton-on-Trent, possibly M.P. 1485-6,1

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