TREOURAN, Roger II

Treouran ranks among the most obscure men to serve in the Commons in Henry VI’s reign. Born as the son of a long-serving coroner of Cornwall, he owed what limited part he played in public life entirely to his father. Elected for Helston alongside Roger senior in 1455, he had earlier that year assisted him in his official duties by returning the coroner’s responses to several writs of certiorari into King’s bench.3 KB9/277/26d, 44d. On chronological grounds, it may have been the son who in the spring of 1477 acted as a justice of gaol delivery at Launceston, rather than the father, whose career had by this date largely come to an end, but in the light of the younger man’s otherwise unremarkable public career it is impossible to be certain.