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were still alive (in which case the number in this category is followed by '?d'). The unbracketed totals are based on annual lists to which knights were added under the year in which they were knighted, or are first recorded as knights,2 and were retained under successive years up to and including the year of their death or the last year in which they are known to have been alive.3 Knights whose year of death is unknown are recorded under the year following the last year in which they are known to have been alive and any of the four subsequent years in which they are not known to have been dead. 1485-1489 8: 7 (1 ?d): 8(1 ?d): 8(1 ?d): 9(1 ?d). 1490-1499 9(1 ?d): 9: 9(1 ?d): 9(1 ?d): 9(1 ?k, 1 ?d): 8(2 ?k, 1 ?d): 7(2 ?k, 1 ?d): 11(1 ?k): 11(1 ?k): 12. 1500-1509 11(1 ?d): 15: 14: 14: 13: 11(1 ?d): 10(2 ?d): 9(1 ?d): 8(1 ?d): 8(1 ?d). 1510-1519 8: 8: 6: 18: 18(1 ?k): 18(1 ?k): 20: 20(1 ?k): 22: 23. 1520-1529 21(1 ?d): 20(1 ?d): 18(2 ?d): 19(2 ?d): 19(2 ?d, l?k): 18(1 ?k): 17(1 ?d): 17(1 ?d): 17(1 ?d):17(l ?d). 1530-1539 15(1 ?d): 14: 11(1 ?d): 11: 11: 10(1 ?d): 8: 8: 8: 8. 1540-1549 8(1 ?k): 8(2 ?k): 10: 10: 10: 10(2 ?k): 11(2 ?k): 15(1 ?k): 14(1 ?k, 1 ?d): 15(3 ?k, 1 ?d). 1550-1558 18(1 ?k): 17(1 ?k, 1 ?d): 16(2 ?k): 21(1 ?k): 22: 22: 22: 22: 19. 2 Or, in the cases of Sir Roland Veleville (above Anglesey no. 1) and Sir Charles Somerset (above Monmouthshire no. 6), the first year in which they took possession of lands in Wales. 3 Or, in the case of Sir Charles Somerset, the first year in which he is known to have been a peer of the realm, or in the case of Sir Thomas Exmew (above Denbighshire no. 3), the year when he ceased to own lands in Wales.