MORYS, Stephen

An obscure man not known to have held office under either the Crown or the duchy of Cornwall, Morys evidently owed his return to the Leicester Parliament of 1426 to the patronage of the powerful Bodrugans. Like Peter Petit*, his parliamentary colleague for Lostwithiel that year, his ties with Sir William Bodrugan* (one of the Cornish knights of the shire in the same Parliament) probably resulted from a prior connexion with the Bodrugans’ kinsfolk, the Trevarthians of Trevarthian. Alongside Petit, in the latter years of Henry IV’s reign Morys had been named among the defendants in an assize of novel disseisin concerning lands in Penryn and Tregenay of which Sir Otto Trevarthian and his associates were said to have disseised Richard Pennans.1 CCR, 1409-13, p. 325. He is not otherwise recorded.2 The later London citizen and shipwright of this name was probably a different man: CCR, 1447-54, p. 77.