During his minority, Henry the Seventh, 1502, granted the Wardship to Edward, Lord Dudley.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
As deaths were early in those days, and Wardship frequent, a father sought by the early marriage of his son or daughter to dispose of their hands in his lifetime, instead of leaving them to be dealt out to hungry courtiers, who only sought to make a large profit, as they could, from the marriage of wards they had bought for the purpose.
"Old Church Lore"
William Andrews
He then informed the earl, that while the guard he had left him with would escort the liberated Scots beyond the Forth, the remainder of the troops should be thus disposed: Lord Andrew Murray was to remain chief in command in Clydesdale; Sir Eustace Maxwell, to give up the Wardship of Douglas to Sir John Monteith; and then advance into Annandale, to assist Sir Roger Kirkpatrick, who must now have begun the reduction of the castles in the west of that province.
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter