BLAKAMOUR, Thomas

Blakamour served as a juror during the gaol delivery sessions that took place in Cambridge in July 1437,2 JUST3/8/15, rot. 12. but appears not to have held office in the borough (or, at least, any position of consequence) until over two decades later. In the mid 1450s Joan, the daughter of the late John Marche, sued him for breach of trust because he had failed to enfeoff her of 12 acres in Girton which she claimed her father had left to her while on his deathbed.3 C1/24/74. Although Blakamour was a tailor by trade, he may well have been the ‘blakamour’ who later in the decade sold the university a piece of timber for use in a new chapel, for 3s. 6d.4 Grace Bk. A ed. Leathes, 19. He was probably one of the more prominent burgesses of Cambridge, for the compiler of the borough’s ‘Cross Book’ took the trouble to record the day and month (29 Dec.), although not the year, of his death.5 Cambs. Archs., Cambridge bor. recs., City/PB Box I/4, f. 7v. Elizabeth Blakamour, who sold two shops in Cambridge in 1498,6 Ibid. f. 52. and Robert Blakamour, a chaplain of a chantry in St. Clement’s church in the town who died at the beginning of the sixteenth century, were probably relatives.7 Cambridge Univ. Lib., Mm. 2. 23, p. 213.