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  2. Catherine Howard - Wikipedia

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    Catherine Howard [b] (c. 1523 – 13 February 1542) was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII.She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper, a cousin to Anne Boleyn (the second wife of Henry VIII), and the niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk.

  3. Royal Assent by Commission Act 1541 - Wikipedia

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    c. 21) was an act of the Parliament of England, passed in 1542, [4] which attainted Queen Catherine Howard for adultery, thereby authorising her execution. [a] It also provided that all of Queen Catherine's assets were to be forfeited to the Crown while also creating a new method in which royal assent could be granted to legislation.

  4. Francis Dereham - Wikipedia

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    Francis Dereham (c. 1506/09 – executed () 10 December 1541) was a Tudor courtier whose involvement with Henry VIII's fifth Queen, Catherine Howard, in her youth, prior to engagement with the king, was eventually found out and led to his arrest. The information of Dereham having a relationship with Howard displeased King Henry to such great ...

  5. 1540s in England - Wikipedia

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    23 November – Catherine is stripped of her title as queen and imprisoned in the new Syon Abbey, Middlesex. [10] 1 December – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are arraigned at Guildhall, London, for high treason because of their relationships with Catherine Howard; on 10 December they are executed at Tyburn. Anglican Diocese of ...

  6. Mary Lassells - Wikipedia

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    Mary Lassells was the daughter of Richard, or George, Lassells of Gateford, Nottinghamshire (d. 1520), gentleman. She was in the household of the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk at Lambeth while Catherine Howard, later the fifth wife of King Henry VIII, was a young girl there under the lax guardianship of the Duchess, her step-grandmother.

  7. The 10 Most Infamous Family Inheritance Feuds - AOL

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    1. J. Howard Marshall II Value of estate: $1.6 billion Amount contested: $300 million Feuding parties: wife and son J. Howard Marshall amassed a fortune of approximately $1.6 billion as an oil tycoon.

  8. Tower Green - Wikipedia

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    Side of the Church of St Peter ad Vincula viewed across Tower Green. Tower Green is an open space located south of the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula.Beheading in the privacy of the Tower Green was considered a privilege of rank; the executed were spared insults from jeering crowds, and the monarch was spared bad publicity.

  9. AP reporter's account of botched execution - AOL

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