STRONGE, John

No evidence has been found to link this MP with an older John Strange, who had been clerk of the King’s works at Westminster palace and various other places, including Clarendon park in Wiltshire, from 1413 until 1421.1 CPR, 1413-16, pp. 11, 12, 59; 1416-22, p. 401. That John may have died in about July 1423, when someone else was presented to the prebend in the collegiate church of Tamworth in his place: CPR, 1416-22, p. 254; 1422-9, p. 131. After representing the Wiltshire boroughs of Calne and Ludgershall in consecutive Parliaments in 1449, he became associated with Philip Baynard* esquire, returned by Calne the following year. Early in 1453 he was named as an attorney to deliver seisin to Baynard of certain lands and tenements.2 Glos. Archs., Badminton muns. D2700/NR11/1/19. He may have been the John Stronge who served as a juror at the inquisition post mortem held in Salisbury on 27 Dec. 1458, following the death of John Sely.3 C139/171/12. Yet even if so, he remains an obscure figure.