Constituency Dates
Dover 1420, 1421 (May)
Family and Education
s. of Richard Arnold (d.c.1402) of Dover.
Offices Held

Jurat, Dover Sept. 1420–1, 1426 – 30, 1431 – 35, 1439 – 41; mayor 1422 – 23, 1424 – 25, 1430 – 31; dep. mayor 1423–4.Add. 29615, ff. 77, 116, 126, 138, 151, 166, 174, 181, 189, 202; 29810, ff. 20, 31; Egerton 2058, f. 204; 2088, ff. 210, 213.

Address
Main residence: Dover, Kent.
biography text

Arnold’s father had been ‘custos bonorum’ at Dover in 1376-8, and a jurat subsequently.1Add. 29615, ff. 40, 52; Egerton 2088, ff. 15, 116; 2091, f. 17. He himself witnessed deeds in the town between 1412 and 1437 and was engaged in lawsuits in the local courts from 1413. In July 1426 he was one of a group of townsmen who confirmed the lease of a chamber to the rector of St. Nicholas’s church. He is recorded in the 1430s as selling timber to the commonalty to repair its houses.2Dover Chs. ed. Statham, 166, 196; Egerton 2088, f. 175; CAD , i. B1353; Add. 29810, f. 18.

Author
A.P.M.W.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Notes
  • 1. Add. 29615, ff. 40, 52; Egerton 2088, ff. 15, 116; 2091, f. 17.
  • 2. Dover Chs. ed. Statham, 166, 196; Egerton 2088, f. 175; CAD , i. B1353; Add. 29810, f. 18.