Historic Royal Palaces - Edmund Dudley (1991) 0:40 (UK)

"I can tell of deeds blacker than a raven's wings."

Edmund Dudley (born 1462 -17 August 1510) was an English administrator and a financial agent of King Henry VII. He served as a leading member of the Council Learned in the Law, Speaker of the House of Commons, and President of the King's Council. After the accession of Henry VIII, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed the next year on a treason charge. While waiting for his execution he wrote The Tree of Commonwealth.

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