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SIR RICHARD EMPSON (d. 1510)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 362 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR RICHARD EMPSON (d. 1510)  , minister of Henry VII., king of England, was a son of Peter Empson, an influential inhabitant of
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Towcester . Educated as a lawyer he soon attained considerable success in his profession, and in 1491 was one of the members of parliament for Northamptonshire and
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speaker of the House of
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Commons . Early in the reign of Henry VII. he became associated with Edmund Dudley (q.v.) in carrying out the king's rigorous and arbitrary
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system of taxation, and in consequence he became very unpopular . Retaining the royal favour, how-ever, he was made a knight in 1504, and was soon high steward of the university of Cambridge, and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; but his official career ended with Henry's
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death in
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April 1509 . Thrown into prison by order of the new king, Henry VIII., he was charged, like Dudley, with the crime of constructive treason, and was convicted at Northampton in
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October 1509 . His attainder by the parliament followed, and he was beheaded on the 17th or 18th of August 1510 . Empson
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left, so far as is known, a
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family of two sons and four daughters, and about 1513 his estates were restored to his elder son, Thomas . See Francis Bacon,
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History of Henry VII., edited by J . R . Lumby (Cambridge, 1881) ; and J . S . Brewer, The Reign of Henry VIII.. edited by J .

Gairdner (
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London, 1884) .

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