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From Wikipedia (accessed 2017-09-23 under the article "Michael Stanhope (died 1552)"

"He was Master of the King's Harriers in July 1548..."

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The Master of the Harriers was a position in the British Royal Household, responsible for overseeing the Royal harriers. It was allowed to lapse in 1701, but was revived in 1730 as the "Master of the Harriers and Foxhounds". The position was abolished in a reorganization of the Royal Household in 1782.

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From Wikipedia (accessed 2017-09-23 under the article "Michael Stanhope (died 1552)"

"....by 1549 was chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber."

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The Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber had overall responsibility for all staff of the King.

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From Wikipedia (accessed 2017-09-23 under the article "Michael Stanhope (died 1552)"

"In 1549, Stanhope's brother-in-law, Somerset, fell from power, and on 12 October 1549 Stanhope lost his own appointments and was imprisoned in the Tower. The Privy Council ordered his release on 17 February 1550, but the order was reversed on the following day. On 22 February Stanhope acknowledged a recognizance of £3000, and was granted his freedom."

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Recognizance is a conditional obligation undertaken by a person before a court. It is an obligation of record, entered into before a court or magistrate duly authorized, whereby the party bound acknowledges (recognizes) that they owe a personal debt to the state.

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From Wikipedia (accessed 2017-09-23 under the article "Michael Stanhope (died 1552)"

"....was again sent to the Tower, this time on a charge of involvement with Somerset in a conspiracy to take the life of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and others."

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Knighted by King James

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From Wikipedia (accessed 2017-09-23 under the article "Battle of Stoke Field")

The Battle of Stoke Field on 16 June 1487 may be considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, since it was the last major engagement between contenders for the throne whose claims derived from descent from the houses of Lancaster and York respectively. The Battle of Bosworth Field, two years previously, had established King Henry VII on the throne, ending the last period of Yorkist rule and initiating that of the Tudors. The Battle of Stoke Field was the decisive engagement in an attempt by leading Yorkists to unseat him in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel.

Though it is often portrayed as almost a footnote to the major battles between York and Lancaster, it may have been slightly larger than Bosworth, with much heavier casualties, possibly because of the terrain which forced the two sides into close, attritional combat. In the end, though, Henry's victory was crushing. Almost all the leading Yorkists were killed in the battle.

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From Wikipedia (accessed 2017-09-23 under the article "Cornish rebellion of 1497 - section refering to Battle of Blackheath")

The Cornish rebellion of 1497 (Cornish: Rebellyans Kernow) was a popular uprising by the people of Cornwall. Its primary cause was the response by the impoverished Cornish populace to the raising of war taxes by King Henry VII to raise money for a campaign against Scotland.

Tin miners were angered as the scale of the taxes overturned previous rights granted by Edward I of England to the Cornish Stannary Parliament, which exempted Cornwall from all taxes of 10ths or 15ths of income.

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...The Cornish army left Guildford and moved via Banstead and Chussex Plain to Blackheath where they pitched their final camp, looking down from the hill onto the Thames and City of London. Despite unrest among the Cornish forces, An Gof held his army together, but faced with overwhelming odds, some Cornish deserted and by morning there remained only some 9-10,000 Cornish stalwarts left in arms.

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Alured, a.k.a Avery, Rawson

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From Stanhope Family website accessed 2017-09-23
[http://www.freewebs.com/stanhopefamily/]

He [Sir John Townshend of Raynham] and Sir Matthew Browne, who had also been Knighted at Cadiz, fought a duel on Hounslow Heath. They both died, Sir Matthew on the spot, Sir John Townshend a liitle later, on 2/8/1603.