| Constituency | Dates |
|---|---|
| Bath | 1433 |
| Southwark | 1453 |
Attestor, parlty. elections, Bath 1427, 1432.
Mayor, Bath c. June 1427 – 28, 1432 – 33, 1434 – 35, 1437 – 38, 1442 – 43, Jan. 1444 – d.
Commr. of gaol delivery, Bath Oct. 1431.1 C66/431, m. 29d.
More may be added to the earlier biography.2 The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 74-75.
Although at the end of his life Philipps was able to describe himself as a cloth-maker or draper, his origins were more humble: in a dispute with Ralph Hunt* and Robert Chiselden* in 1422 he was still styled as a mere tucker.3 CFR, xiv. 437; CP40/756, rot. 156.
The circumstances of Philipps’s curtailed final mayoralty are obscure. On 25 June 1443 Walter Rich* was in post, having presumably assumed office on the preceding Midsummer’s Day. However, by 13 Jan. 1444 it was Philipps who held the mayoralty and who must have died in post just three months later.4 Ancient Deeds Bath ed. Shickle, 1/49; 2/80. The terms of his will were complex and its execution occupied his executors, John Shipwarde* (the husband of Philipps’s daughter Katherine) and Roger Hayne alias Stanburgh*, into the 1450s.5 CP40/756, rot. 156.