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later called him "Humphrey
Stafford with the Silver Hand." Although the date of this occurrence is unknown, he was an active soldier at the turn of the fifteenth century; there were, therefore, plenty of opportunities for him to have lost a limb. He served as a
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Within a few years, Stafford the younger had become involved in an old property dispute with the
Erdswick family; by 1406 he was elected M.P. for Staffordshire; and a year later he participated in that county's parliamentary elections.
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Humphrey's father, where they lived until 1413 (when both Humphrey's father and Elizabeth's mother died within a fortnight of each other). As his grandmother was a daughter of the
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in 1407. Most recently it has been suggested that it was in Henry's Welsh service – possibly at this siege – that he lost his hand, and replaced it "with an artificial one made out of silver".
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in 1421, in his role of King's knight, and in the same period, spent time defending his estates (one of his
Shropshire manors, for example, had been seized by Welshmen in the employ of
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and worth about £570 a year, while those in Dorset were assessed in the 1412 tax as around £660 (and so was taxed at the highest rate). His new wealth enabled him to improve the
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Staffordshire, and then in 1414, 1417, 1419, 1420, 1421, 1422, 1426, 1427, and 1432 for Dorset. He was also
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