 Littleton, a former and future MP for Staffordshire, was a known religious conservative who had nevertheless done well from the Dissolution of the Monasteries.He was an abrasive, acquisitive figure, who had a talent for making enemies in high places and was considered over-mighty in his own county.Calverley, then the MP for Cheshire, had a long record of violence, poaching and rustling behind him, as well as before him.