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Historical person
1532–1595
Sir Thomas Heneage was an English courtier and politician who rose through Elizabeth I's household, becoming Treasurer of the Privy Chamber, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and a member of the Privy Council.
He represented several constituencies in Parliament and was sent on sensitive royal business, including the 1586 mission to the Netherlands in which he delivered Elizabeth's rebuke to the Earl of Leicester for accepting the governor-generalship. In 1590 Heneage became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and remained close to the machinery of court until his death in 1595.
In John Pilkington’s A Reluctant Assassin, Former artillery captain Will Revill has returned from war in the Low Countries and wants no more killing, but Sir Thomas Heneage, Elizabeth I's Vice-Chamberlain, orders him to arrange the death of Sir Abel Stanbury. In John Pilkington’s A Reluctant Traitor, As fighting continues against the Catholic League led by the Duke of Mayenne, Revill receives another clandestine order from Sir Thomas Heneage.
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The Will Revill thrillers follow a former artillery captain drawn into covert service for the Crown between 1589 and 1591. Revill has seen enough organised violence to distrust easy appeals to duty, yet his military skills and vulnerable family connections allow powerful councillors to keep forcing him back…
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