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SIR JAMES TYRRELL (d. 1502)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 551 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR JAMES TYRRELL (d. 1502)  , the supposed murderer of the
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English king
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Edward V., and of his
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brother Richard, duke of York, was a son of William Tyrrell and a grandson of
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Sir John Tyrrell (d. c . 1437), who was treasurer of the royal household and was on three occasions
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Speaker of the House of
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Commons . The
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family is said to descend from Walter Tirel, the murderer of William Rufus . During the
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Wars of the Roses James Tyrrell fought for the Yorkists; in 1471 he was knighted; and in 1477 he was member of parliament for
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Cornwall . With regard to his share in the
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murder of the prince in 1483 he appears to have been selected by Richard III. and sent to the Tower of
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London, where he supervised the crime which was carried out by his subordinates . Afterwards he received several appointments from Richard and was sent to Flanders . He was also employed by Henry VII. and was made governor of Guisnes, but he seems to have incurred the king's displeasure through his friendship with Edmund de la Pole,
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earl of Suffolk . Having been treacherously seized he was conveyed to England and was executed on the '6th of May 1502 . Just before his
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death he made a confession about the murder of the princes . Members of the same family were Sir Thomas Tyrrell (1594-1672), justice of the
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common pleas under Charles II., and Anthony Tyrrell (1552–c . 161o), a
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Roman Catholic priest and spy, who afterwards became a clergyman of the Church of England .

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