 Six hundred years after Sir Nicholas Colfox (on the instructions of Richard II and his feudal lord, the Duke of Norfolk) was involved in the murder of the King's uncle, Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (1397), Sir Philip had returned Colfoxs to the national scene.Sir Nicholas was pardoned by King Henry IV in 1404.Colfox's family had a long connection with Symondsbury, Bridport.