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

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