Dudley, Edmund, an English lawyer and privy-councillor; was associated with Empson as an agent in carrying on the obnoxious policy of Henry VII., and beheaded along with him at the instance of Henry VIII. on a charge of high treason in 1510.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dudley * Dudley, John