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Nicholas Pelham (died 1560)

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88:, and initially pleaded not guilty. He was induced to change his plea to guilty and throw himself on the king's mercy. The king however ordered that he must die, and unusually in the case of a nobleman, did not commute the sentence to 130:. In this struggle, Pelham at first seems to have remained relatively neutral, but was later identified firmly with Somerset. In 1551, when Northumberland finally moved to destroy Somerset, Pelham and Arundel were charged with 111:
for 1549–50. He was knighted on 17 November 1549. He had some military skills and defeated a French raiding party in 1545. He was later spoken of by the Privy Council as a "man experienced in war".
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He was the eldest son of Sir William Pelham of Laughton, Sussex, and his first wife Mary Carew, daughter of Sir Richard Carew and his wife Malyn Oxenbridge, and sister of Sir
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of Withyham and Chiddingly, Sussex and his first wife Margaret Boleyn (aunt of Anne Boleyn), with whom he had five sons and three daughters. His son
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The Worthies of Sussex: Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Natives or Inhabitants of the County, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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through her mother his career might well have prospered under the new reign, but he died in September 1560.
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on Pelham's estate. Pelham pursued the matter with vigour, and Dacre was arrested and charged with
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he was rarely at court, perhaps embittered by the execution of his uncle Sir Nicholas Carew for
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Hunters and Poachers: A Social and Cultural History of Unlawful Hunting in England, 1485-1640
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John Busbrig (or Busbridge), during a scuffle when Dacre and his friends were caught
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Moore, James (2016). "Chapter 7: A Posh Poacher Snared in the Noose 1541".
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in 1538. He first came to the public's attention in 1541 when he accused
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was created a baronet. His daughter Anne married Thomas Shurley of
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The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558
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Queen was hampered by the fact that he was a staunch
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Index

Laughton, Sussex
Nicholas Carew
William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys
Edmund Pelham
William Pelham
Lord Justice of Ireland
Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
treason
Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre
gamekeeper
poaching
murder
privilege of peerage
House of Lords
decapitation
Tyburn
Justice of the Peace
High Sheriff of Surrey
Sussex
Edward VI
Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset
conspiracy
Tower of London
will
Mary I
Roman Catholic
Protestant

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