POYNINGS, SIR EDWARD

1459–1521, English statesman. After taking part in an insurrection (1483) against Richard III, he fled to the Continent, where he joined the followers of Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, who in 1485 ascended the English throne as Henry VII. Poynings served Henry on the Continent and was sent (1494) to Ireland as lord deputy. He put down the numerous supporters of the Yorkist party and set about subjugating Ireland. He summoned to Drogheda a Parliament that enacted statutes for the further anglicization of the Irish government. After his return (1496) to England, he had military and diplomatic posts and was warden of the Cinque Ports. Poyning's Law is the name given to the Drogheda statutes (1494) that provided that the English privy council must give previous assent to the summoning of an Irish Parliament and to the introduction of any specific legislation in the Irish Parliament, and that all laws passed in England should apply to Ireland. Its effect was to render a free Irish Parliament impossible. Henry Grattan procured its repeal in 1782.

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Life and Letters of Sir Thomas Wyatt
Book by Kenneth Muir; Liverpool University Press, 1963
Subjects: Wyatt, Thomas--Sir--1503?-1542
...part in a mock battle. Edward Hall describes 7 a feat...associated with him, including Sir George Cobham his brother-in-law...November of the same year Sir Edward Ryngley had been appointed...had promised it both to Sir Edward Wotton and to Sir T. Willoughby...
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The Treason and Trial of Sir John Perrot
Book by Roger Turvey; University of Wales Press, 2005
Subjects: Ireland--History--1558-1603, Judicial Error--Ireland--History--16th Century, Nobility--Wales--Biography, Perrot, John--Sir--Ca. 1527-1592, Perrot, John--Sir--Ca. 1527-1592--Trials, Litigation, Etc
...brought up, assuring Sir John ... that they...to the repeal of Poynings Act but to any other...yonge prince, Kinge Edward, Queene Mary his...cominge to the crowne Sir John Perrott continewed...reacted to the advice Sir Christopher Hatton received from Edward Dyer in 1572, namely...
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A Dictionary of the Characters in the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott
Book by M. F. A. Husband; George Routledge and Sons, 1910
Subjects: Scott, Walter--Sir--1771-1832--Dictionaries, Indexes, Etc, Scott, Walter--Sir--1771-1832--Waverley Novels (Boston, Mass.)
...Leicester to overtake Sir Richard Varney with...when he went to meet Edward Christian and Alice...See also MAULEY, SIR EDWARD. BLACK FELTHAM...the discovery of Edward Christians villainous...with Cromwell saved Sir Geoffrey Peverils...
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Essays Presented to Sir Lewis Namier
Book by Richard Pares, A. J. P. Taylor; Macmillan, 1956
Subjects: History, Modern, Namier, Lewis Bernstein--Sir--1888-1960
...successful practitioner, Sir Edward Coke, became, in other...office of a Welsh lawyer, Sir Edward Powell, and was connected...first Earl of Oxford, by Edward Harley, Auditor of the...bad hands as it did when Sir G. Heathcote was overpowered...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt: With a Memoir
Book by Thomas Wyatt; Little Brown, 1854
Subjects: Nicolas, Nicholas Harris--Sir--1799-1848
...of Montagu, of his brother, of Sir Edward Nevill, and of there servants...yourself of Mr. Vane and Mr. Poynings. And thus after my most humble...survived him, and married secondly Sir Edward Warner, Sir Thomas Wyatt left...
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Britannia, Ralph Brooke, and the Representation of Privilege in Elizabethan England [*]
Journal article by William Rockett; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 53, 2000
Subjects: Britannia, 4th ed. (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Brooke, Ralph--Conduct of life, Editors--Conduct of life, Heraldry--United Kingdom, Peerage--United Kingdom, Social classes--United Kingdom, United Kingdom--History, 1558-1603 (Elizabethan era)
...the baronial family of Poynings, and at last, again owing...Walter dEuereux, whose son Edward, first earl of Salisbury...Christopher Hatton of Holdenby; Sir Francis Carew of Beddington...that of Burghleys nephew Sir Edward Hoby, whose heraldic interests...


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Britain 1500
Magazine article by Steven Gunn; History Today, Vol. 50, August 2000
Subjects: Church history--United Kingdom, Constitutional history--United Kingdom, Economic history--United Kingdom, Fifteenth century--History, Historical sociology--United Kingdom, Military history--United Kingdom, Sixteenth century--History, United Kingdom--History
...expensive military interventions like that of Sir Edward Poynings in 1494-95, the source of Poynings Law which subjected Irish parliamentary legislation...hereditary estates. Thus local leaders like Sir Rhys ap Thomas of Dinefwr or the Gruffydds...


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Plaid AM Aims to Set Up Cross-Party Group for a 'Yes Campaign' Supporters of Full Lawmaking to Oppose Tory's True Wales Block
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 24, 2008
Subjects: National Assembly--Political activity
...begun its work." Last week Sir Emyr Jones- Parry, who...referendum is due before 2011. Poynings Law Academics have compared...years ago. Dafydd Idris Edwards, a balladeer from Pontypridd...Henry VIIs Irish Viceroy, Sir Edward Poynings. There are striking similarities...


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Poynings, Sir Edward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
POYNINGS, SIR EDWARD 1459 1521, English statesman. After...ascended the English throne as Henry VII. Poynings served Henry on the Continent and was...and was warden of the Cinque Ports. Poynings Law is the name given to the Drogheda...
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Flood, Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to Henry Grattan . Flood recaptured popularity when, following the repeal (1782) of Poyningss Law (see under Poynings, Sir Edward ), he went beyond Grattan in demanding positive assurance of Irish legislative independence. But his opposition...
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Grattan, Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...successful fight for abolition of the restrictions on Irish trade and the repeal of Poyningss Law (see under Poynings, Sir Edward ). Having thus gained nominal legislative independence for the Irish Parliament, he worked to eliminate the system...
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Drogheda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...submitted there to Richard II. Poyningss Law (see under Poynings, Sir Edward ) was enacted in Drogheda in the 15th cent. Oliver...in 1224. There are ruins of a priory from the time of Edward I. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Fox, Charles James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the marquess of Rockinghams Whig ministry (1782) and helped to secure the repeal of Poyningss Law (see under Poynings, Sir Edward ), thus giving Ireland legislative independence. He quarreled with the earl of Shelburne over the negotiation...
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