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Wriothesley is a central character in the "Tudor Crimes" series of historical novels by Anne Stevens, and he is portrayed as a knave, who will do anything to advance himself. Wriothesley is a major character and villain in three novels based on Thomas Cromwell, Frailty of Human Affairs and Shaking the Throne, and No Armour Against Fate, by ...
*These were all capital crimes; the usual sentence was death. From 1547 if a peer or peeress was convicted of a crime, except treason or murder, he or she could claim "privilege of peerage" to escape punishment if it was their first offence. In all, the privilege was exercised five times, until it was formally abolished in 1841.
Its second creation came in 1547 in favour of the politician Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Baron Wriothesley, Lord Chancellor between 1544 and 1547. He had already been created Baron Wriothesley (pronounced "rose ley" /ˈroʊzli/) in 1544, also in the Peerage of England. He was succeeded by his third but only surviving son, the second Earl.
Wriothesley (pronounced / ˈ r aɪ ə θ s l i / [1] RY-əthss-lee) may refer to: William Wriothesley (died 1513), officer of arms at the College of Arms in London; Thomas Wriothesley (died 1534), long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London; Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton KG (1505–1550), English politician of ...
Charles Wriothesley (/ ˈ r aɪ ə θ s l i / [1] REYE-əths-lee; 8 May 1508 – 25 January 1562) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He was the last member of a dynasty of heralds that started with his grandfather— Garter Principal King of Arms John Writhe .
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Biden did recently pardon 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes and commuted the sentence of nearly 1,500 people who were placed in home confinement, AP News reported. This was the largest ...
Arms of Wriothesley: Azure, a cross or between four hawks close argent Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton (pronunciation uncertain: / ˈ r aɪ z l i / RYE-zlee (archaic), [1] / ˈ r ɒ t s l i / ROTT-slee (present-day) [1] and / ˈ r aɪ ə θ s l i / RYE-əths-lee [2] have been suggested) (24 April 1545 – 4 October 1581), was an English peer.