Legal Definition of distress. 1  1 : seizure and detention of the goods of another as pledge or to obtain satisfaction of a claim by the sale of the goods seized; specifically : seizure by a landlord of a tenant's property to obtain satisfaction of arrearages in rent Editor's note: Distress is regulated by statute where available.
Discussion Forums. |. Search. EDWARD VI, King of England and Ireland, born at Greenwich on the 12th of October 1537, was the only child of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, who died of puerperal fever twelve days later.
THE REIGN OF HENRY VII. AN INTRODUCTION. HENRY TUDOR. BORN: 28 JANUARY 1457. SUCCEEDED: 22 AUGUST 1485. DIED: 21 APRIL 1509. The battle was over. On a stretch of high ground in the midland heart of the kingdom. twenty thousand men had met in fierce, clumsy combat, and the day had ended in the.