biography text
From 1384 Cordell occasionally witnessed enrolments made in the borough court and provided securities for some of the cofferers of Bridport at the time of their election.1Ibid. B3/D2, f. 74; M11, f. 9. In 1386 he was a tenant of property in the town belonging to Sir John Chideok, and three years later took out a lease on one of the borough’s tenements. In the spring of 1388 William Hamond† of Dorchester authorized him to deliver seisin of a burgage in Bridport. He probably died before 1396 when a house in East Street was said to be no longer in his possession.2Ibid. B3/D2, ff. 77, 87v; M11, f. 27; CAD, ii. C2414.