TAVERNER, Thomas, of Rochester, Kent.

Constituency	Dates
Rochester	[]

Family and Education

m. bef. Feb. 1411, Margaret.

Address

Main residence: Rochester, Kent.

biography text

Taverner witnessed a deed at Rochester in May 1401. Early in 1405 he was employed by the sheriff of Kent to deliver a summons to William Swinburne, requiring his appearance in Chancery. His wife had inherited a messuage and lands to the south of Rochester, at East Malling, which, however, the couple sold in 1411.1Arch. Cant. xxi. 315; CPR, 1401-5, p. 494; CP25(1)112/275/539.

Author

L.S.W.

Volume

Commons 1386-1421

Notes

He may have been related to a namesake of Rochester who died before 1360, but, if so, not closely, for that Thomas Taverner’s heirs were his nephews, Thomas and John Campenade: CAD, ii. B3072, 3154, 3156.

Notes

1. Arch. Cant. xxi. 315; CPR, 1401-5, p. 494; CP25(1)112/275/539.