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Simnel, who was defeated and taken prisoner at the battle of Stoke in 1487. The earl of Warwick lived for twelve years later in unjust confinement, and was ultimately put to See also:

DEATH

death in 1499 because he had consented to a See also:

plot for his own liberation. As to his See also:

SISTER

sister Margaret, she was married to one of Henry VII.'s Welsh followers, Sir Richard Pole (or See also:

Poole), and could give no trouble, so that, when Henry See also:

VILL

VIll. came to the See also:

THRONE

throne, he thought it politic to treat her with kindness. He made her countess of Salisbury, reversed her See also:

BROTHER

brother's attainder, created her eldest son, Henry, Lord Montague, and caused one of her younger sons, Reginald, who displayed much See also:

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste for learning, to he carefully educated. This, however, was the very thing which involved the whole See also:

FAMILY

family in ruin.

For Henry looked to the learning and abilities of Reginald Pole to vindicate before See also:

EUROPE

Europe the See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of his See also:

DIVORCE

divorce from See also:

Catherine of See also:

ARAGON, or ARRAGON (in Span. Aragon)

Aragon; and, when Pole was conscientiously compelled to declare the very opposite, the See also:

king's indignation knew no See also:

BOUNDS, BEATING THE

bounds. Pole himself was safe, having secured some See also:

time before a See also:

RETREAT (O. Fr. retrete, mod. retraite, from Lat. retrahere, to draw back)

retreat in See also:

Italy. He was even made a cardinal by the See also:

pope. But this only made matters worse for his family at See also:

home: his brother, Lord Montague, and even his mother, the aged countess of Salisbury, were beheaded as traitors because they had continued to correspond with him. Cardinal Pole, however, came back to his own See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country with See also:

GREAT

great See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour in the reign of See also:

Queen See also:

Mary, and was made See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of Canter-See also:

bury on the deprivation of See also:

CRANMER, THOMAS (1489-1556)

Cranmer. See also:

Early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, two nephews of the cardinal, Arthur and Edmund Pole, being ardent young men, conspired to go over to the duke of See also:

Guise in See also:

France, hoping to return with an See also:

army into Wales and so promote the claims of Mary Queen of Scots to the crown of See also:

England, for which service the See also:

elder, Arthur, expected to be restored to the dukedom of Clarence. The result was that they were condemned to death, but were only imprisoned for the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of their See also:

CLAYS, PAUL JEAN (1819-1900)

clays in the Tower, where they both carved See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions on the walls of their See also:

DUNGEON

dungeon, which are still visible in the See also:

Beauchamp tower. Another See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the house of York might have given troubleJohn de la Pole, Edmund See also:

HUMPHREY (or HUMFREY), LAWRENCE (1527?-1590)

Humphrey and Richard Four earl of See also:

Lincoln de la Pole Edward, de la Pole daughters. (d. 1487). (d. 1513). churchmen.

(d. 1525). See also:

URSULA, ST

Ursula, married to Henry, Lord See also:

Stafford, son of Edward, duke of See also:

Buckingham. to the Tudors if they had not been narrowly watched and ultimately extinguished. Of the sisters of Edward IV., the eldest, Anne, who married the duke of Exeter, See also:

LEFT

left only one daughter by her second husband, Sir Thomas St Leger; but the second, Elizabeth, married John de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, and had several children. Their eldest son was created earl of Lincoln during his father's See also:

LIFE

life, and Richard III., after the death of his own son, had designated him as his successor. Disappointed of a See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom by the success of Henry VII., he joined in Simnel's rebellion and was killed at the battle of Stoke. His brother Edmund thus became See also:

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a house, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

heir to his father; but in the reduced circumstances of the family he agreed to forbear the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of duke and take that of earl of Suffolk. He continued for some years in favour with the king, who made him a See also:

knight of the Garter; but, having killed a See also:

man in a See also:

PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion, he fled abroad and was entertained at the See also:

court of the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

Maximilian, and after-wards at that of See also:

Philip, king of See also:

CASTILE, or CASTILLE (Castilla)

Castile, when See also:

RESIDENT

resident in the See also:

Low Countries before his departure for See also:

Spain. Philip, having been driven on the See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast when going to take See also:

possession of his See also:

SPANISH

Spanish kingdom, was entertained at Windsor by Henry VII., to whom he promised to deliver up the fugitive on See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition that his life should be spared. Edmund de la Pole accordingly was brought back to England and lodged in the Tower. Though the promise to spare his life was kept by the king who gave it, his son Henry VIII. caused him to be executed in 1513, when See also:

war See also:

broke out with France, apparently for treasonable See also:

correspondence with his brother Richard, then in the See also:

French service.

After his death Richard de la Pole, remaining in See also:

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile, called himself earl of Suffolk, and was flattered occasionally by See also:

Francis I. with faint hopes of the crown of England. He was killed at the battle of See also:

PAVIA (anc. Ticinum, q.v.)

Pavia in 1525. There were no more De Ia Poles who could advance even the most shadowy pretensions to disturb the Tudor See also:

DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty. (J.

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