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DUDLEY, John, Viscount Lisle, Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND (1502?-1553). Letter signed ('John Lisle') to Michael Stanhope (the King's Deputy at Hull), Alnwick Castle, 6 March n.y. [1542-1547], 1½ pages, folio, integral address leaf, traces of seal (small seal tears, repaired, and tear in edge of address leaf, slightly soiled and worn in folds).
A rebuke for bungling the King's business in Hull, particularly by paying out sums which have already been paid, including the charges of the ships pressed into his Majesty's service at Hull, giving instructions for correcting the mistakes, and informing Stanhope that the ships he has sent are to be discharged, 'Albeit by reason of yll weyther, they have byn so long uppon the Sees that moche of yt, ys spilt and lytell worthe wherin the kinges mat[jest]ie shalbe a gret loser'.
John Dudley was to be the father-in-law of Lady Jane Grey. Michael Stanhope, an adherent and brother-in-law of Dudley's arch-rival, the Duke of Somerset, was imprisoned in 1551 on a charge of conspiring against Dudley's life, and beheaded on Tower Hill in February 1552.
A rebuke for bungling the King's business in Hull, particularly by paying out sums which have already been paid, including the charges of the ships pressed into his Majesty's service at Hull, giving instructions for correcting the mistakes, and informing Stanhope that the ships he has sent are to be discharged, 'Albeit by reason of yll weyther, they have byn so long uppon the Sees that moche of yt, ys spilt and lytell worthe wherin the kinges mat[jest]ie shalbe a gret loser'.
John Dudley was to be the father-in-law of Lady Jane Grey. Michael Stanhope, an adherent and brother-in-law of Dudley's arch-rival, the Duke of Somerset, was imprisoned in 1551 on a charge of conspiring against Dudley's life, and beheaded on Tower Hill in February 1552.
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