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Donna Myrle Tilley, 87, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017.
Funeral services will be at 12 noon Monday September 25, 2017 at the Alameda 3rd Ward LDS Chapel (Jefferson & Walnut). A viewing will be 1 hour prior to services. Interment will be in Mountainview Cemetery. Arrangements are under the care of MANNING-WHEATLEY FUNERAL CHAPEL, 510 N. 12th Ave.
[Pocatello, Idaho - from Legacy ObitMessenger]

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Anne Rawson of Aveley, Essex - interestingly, this person supposedly born in Shelford Nottinghamshire, not Aveley
2017-09-23 from FamilySearch merge

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his half-sister, Anne, had married Edward Seymour, the brother of Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII, and Michael entered the King's service

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He helped to prevent the spread of the rebellion known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, and was rewarded with an appointment as Justice of the Peace for Nottinghamshire, and the opportunity to acquire lands in Nottinghamshire that became available as a result of the dissolution of the monasteries.

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When his elder brother, Richard, died without male issue on 21 January 1529, Michael Stanhope succeeded to the family's lands, and by 1532 was in the service of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland.

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second son of Sir Edward Stanhope (d. 6 June 1511) of Rampton by his first wife, Adelina Clifton

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Sir Michael Stanhope (before 1508 - 26 February 1552) was the son of Sir Edward Stanhope of Rampton, Nottinghamshire. For a time an influential courtier, he was beheaded on Tower Hill on 26 February 1552 after he was convicted of conspiring to take the life of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and others.

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By 1535 Stanhope's half sister, Anne, had married Edward Seymour, the brother of Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII, and Stanhope entered the King's service.

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

"...by 1540 was one of Henry VIII's Esquires of the Body."

Definition: An Esquire of the Body was a personal attendant and courtier to the Kings of England in the late-medieval and early-modern periods.
The position also existed in some lesser courts, such as that of the Prince of Wales.

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

"...appointed Groom of the Stool to Edward VI, an appointment which effectually placed him in control of the King's privy purse, and 'was recognised as the leading figure in the royal entourage'."

Definition: The Groom of the Stool (formally styled: "Groom of the King's Close Stool") was the most intimate of an English monarch's courtiers, responsible for assisting the king in excretion and ablution.

The physical intimacy of the role naturally led to him becoming a man in whom much confidence was placed by his royal master and with whom many royal secrets were shared as a matter of course. This secret information-while it would never have been revealed, to the discredit of his honour-in turn led to him becoming feared and respected and therefore powerful within the royal court in his own right. The office developed gradually over decades and centuries into one of administration of the royal finances, and under Henry VII, the Groom of the Stool became a powerful official involved in setting national fiscal policy, under the "chamber system".

The function was transformed into that of a virtual minister of the royal treasury, being then an essential figure in the king's management of fiscal policy.

In the early years of Henry VIII's reign, the title was awarded to court companions of the king who spent time with him in the privy chamber. These were generally the sons of noblemen or important members of the gentry. In time they came to act as virtual personal secretaries to the king, carrying out a variety of administrative tasks within his private rooms. The position was an especially prized one, as it allowed unobstructed access to the king.