Egremont Radcliffe

Egremont Radcliffe (or Egremont Radclyffe; c. 1540 – 1578) took part in the Rising of the North of 1569; after a period abroad, a showing of repentance to the English government was unsuccessful and he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Life His father was Henry Radcliffe, 2nd Earl of Sussex, and his mother was Henry's second wife Anne Calthorpe. When a young man he took part in the Rising of the North of 1569, an attempt by Catholic nobles to depose Queen Elizabeth I. He was so active that special instructions were given for his capture on its suppression. He managed, however, to escape over the Scottish border, and was for some time, with other rebels, the guest of the Scotts of Buccleuch. A ship was provided to convey the party to Flanders, but news of the efforts the English government were making to intercept them having reached them, they seem to have sailed by way of Orkney. Once at Antwerp, Radcliffe received a pension of eight hundred ducats from the King of Spain. The diplomat Thomas Randolph heard in April 1571 that he had shot and killed an English merchant in Antwerp who refused to lend him money. In the early part of 1572 he went on a mission to Madrid, where he was imprisoned for debt at the end of 1573; in 1574, having returned to the Low Countries, he went to France, and quit "the King of Spain's entertainment". He wrote many letters to Queen Elizabeth's adviser William Cecil and others about his pardon, and in February 1574–5 Thomas Wilson, writing to Cecil, spoke of him as "marvellously repentant"; he offered to serve in Ireland, and later in the same year he sent a letter to Wilson "full of submission, with great moan of his necessity". He moved in 1575 to Calais.